Section 77 — Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act 2001: Assessment of needs and content of plan
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77 Assessment of needs and content of plan (1) In preparing an individual rehabilitation plan, the Corporation must assess the claimant's needs for rehabilitation having regard to the purposes in sections 79 and 80 . (2) An individual rehabilitation plan must— (a) identify the claimant's needs for rehabilitation; and (b) identify the assessments to be done; and (c) identify services appropriate to those needs, whether or not the Corporation is liable to provide any or all of those services; and (d) specify which of the services identified under paragraph (c) that the Corporation will provide, pay for, or contribute to. (3) For the purposes of subsection (2)(a) , the Corporation must assess a claimant's needs for— (a) social rehabilitation under section 84 and clauses 13 to 23 of Schedule 1; and (b) for vocational rehabilitation under sections 89 to 96 . (4) However, the Corporation is not required to assess a claimant's needs under subclause (3)(b) if the claimant's needs are solely related to maintaining employment. Compare: 1998 No 114 Schedule 1 cl 31
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