Section 84 — Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act 2001: Assessment and reassessment of need for social rehabilitation

84 Assessment and reassessment of need for social rehabilitation (1) An assessment under this section assesses a claimant's need for social rehabilitation and identifies the specific social rehabilitation that the claimant needs. (2) The Corporation may— (a) do assessments and reassessments, itself, by using appropriately qualified assessors employed by the Corporation; or (b) appoint and pay as many appropriately qualified assessors as it considers necessary to do assessments and reassessments; or (c) both. (3) A claimant's need for social rehabilitation— (a) may be reassessed from time to time; and (b) must be reassessed if the Corporation considers that the claimant's condition or circumstances have changed. (4) The matters to be taken into account in an assessment or reassessment include— (a) the level of independence a claimant had before suffering the personal injury: (b) the level of independence a claimant has after suffering the personal injury: (c) the limitations suffered by a claimant as a result of the personal injury: (d) the kinds of social rehabilitation that are appropriate for a claimant to minimise those limitations: (e) the rehabilitation outcome that would be achieved by providing particular social rehabilitation: (f) the alternatives and options available for providing particular social rehabilitation so as to achieve the relevant rehabilitation outcome in the most cost effective way: (g) any social rehabilitation (not provided as vocational rehabilitation) that may reasonably be provided to enable a claimant who is entitled to vocational rehabilitation to participate in employment: (h) the geographical location in which a claimant lives: (i) in the case of a reassessment,— (i) whether any item that the Corporation provided for the purposes of social rehabilitation is in such a condition as to need replacing: (ii) changes in the claimant's condition or circumstances since the last assessment was undertaken. (5) The Corporation must provide to an assessor (whether employed or appointed by the Corporation) all information the Corporation has that is relevant to the assessment. Compare: 1998 No 114 Schedule cl 41