Practitioners acting for employers/insurers must ensure that medical certificates relied upon to enliven s 69(13) of the Tasmanian Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 are provided directly by the worker or through a third party expressly and mutually authorised by both worker and employer; certificates obtained by the insurer from an unauthorised intermediary (such as a rehabilitation provider) will not satisfy the statutory preconditions for treating a late certificate as a new claim under s 81A. Workers' compensation insurers should request certificates directly from the worker rather than obtaining them from rehabilitation providers.
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