How is the degree of impairment to be assessed?
28LH How is the degree of impairment to be assessed?
S. 28LH inserted by No. 60/2003 s. 4, amended by No. 102/2003 s. 15(1)(2) (ILA s. 39B(1)).
Subject to this Division, an approved medical practitioner must make an assessment of degree of impairment under this Part—
in accordance with—
the A.M.A. Guides; or
the methods prescribed for the purposes of this Part; and
in accordance with operational guidelines (if any) as to the use of those Guides or methods issued by the Minister.
S. 28LH(2) inserted by No. 102/2003 s. 15(2).
Nothing in subsection (1) prevents an assessment being made in respect of a degree of impairment of a person even if not all of the injuries to the person have stabilised.
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