Workers Compensation Act 1987

Part 6 applies to all injuries, whether received before or after the commencement day, subject to this clause.

An injured worker with an existing claim under the 1987 Act, Part 3 who, before the commencement day, has received one or more assessments of the worker’s degree of permanent impairment is not entitled—

to a principal assessment of the existing claim, and

to a further principal assessment of the existing claim except in accordance with the 1987 Act, section 153Q.

For an injured worker with an existing claim who, on the commencement day, has an assessment of the worker’s degree of permanent impairment underway—

the assessment is taken to be a principal assessment, and

the injured worker is not entitled to a further principal assessment except in accordance with the 1987 Act, section 153Q.