Section 85 — Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act 2001: Corporation liable to provide vocational rehabilitation
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85 Corporation liable to provide vocational rehabilitation (1) The Corporation is liable to provide vocational rehabilitation to a claimant who— (a) has suffered personal injury for which he or she has cover; and (b) is— (i) entitled to weekly compensation; or (ii) likely, unless he or she has vocational rehabilitation, to be entitled to weekly compensation; or (iii) on parental leave. (2) Despite subsection (1)(b)(i), the Corporation is liable to provide vocational rehabilitation to a person who was entitled to weekly compensation and who would, but for clause 52 of Schedule 1 (relationship between weekly compensation and New Zealand superannuation), continue to be entitled to weekly compensation. Compare: 1998 No 114 Schedule 1 cl 53 Section 85(2): added, on 1 October 2008, by section 15 of the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 46).
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