Matters pending before medical referees and medical panels
4 Matters pending before medical referees and medical panels
If a medical dispute or matter referred to a medical referee or medical panel is pending immediately before the repeal of the Compensation Court Act 1984, the medical referee continues in office and the medical panel continues to be constituted (as if that Act had not been repealed) for the purposes of enabling the medical referee or medical panel to give a certificate or report on the medical dispute or matter concerned.
A function can be exercised under section 129 (Power to correct mistakes in medical reports or certificates) of the 1998 Act by a medical referee or medical panel after the repeal of the Compensation Court Act 1984 as if that Act had not been repealed and the medical referee or medical panel still held office or were still constituted under that Act.
This clause applies despite section 10 of the Compensation Court Repeal Act 2002 (which provides for medical referees to cease to hold office on the repeal of the Compensation Court Act 1984).
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