Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003

Rehabilitation, of a worker, is a process designed to—

ensure the worker’s earliest possible return to work; or

maximise the worker’s independent functioning.

Rehabilitation includes—

necessary and reasonable—

suitable duties programs; or

services provided by a registered person; or

services approved by an insurer; or

the provision of necessary and reasonable aids or equipment to the worker.

The purpose of rehabilitation is—

to return the worker to the worker’s pre-injury duties; or

if it is not feasible to return the worker to the worker’s pre-injury duties—to return the worker, either temporarily or permanently, to other suitable duties with the worker’s pre-injury employer; or

if paragraph (b) is not feasible—to return the worker, either temporarily or permanently, to other suitable duties with another employer; or

if paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) are not feasible—to maximise the worker’s independent functioning.