Section Sch1-29 — Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act 2001: Report on medical assessment
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29 Report on medical assessment (1) The medical assessor must prepare and provide to the Corporation a report on the medical assessment specifying— (a) relevant details about the claimant, including details of the claimant's injury; and (b) relevant details about the clinical examination of the claimant undertaken by the assessor, including the methods used and the assessor's findings from the examination; and (c) the results of any additional assessments of the claimant's condition; and (d) the assessor's opinion of the claimant's vocational independence in relation to each of the types of work identified in the occupational assessor's report; and (e) any comments made by the claimant to the assessor relating to the claimant's injury and vocational independence in relation to each of the types of work identified in the occupational assessor's report. (2) The report must also identify any conditions that— (a) prevent the claimant from having vocational independence; and (b) are not related to the claimant's injury. (3) The Corporation must provide a copy of the report to the claimant. Compare: 1998 No 114 s 100
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