Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) An insurer may decide, or a worker may ask the insurer, to have the worker's injury assessed to decide if the worker's injury has resulted in a degree of permanent impairment.
(2) The insurer must have the degree of permanent impairment assessed—
(a) for industrial deafness—by an audiologist; or
(b) for a psychiatric or psychological injury—by a medical assessment tribunal; or
(c) for another injury—by a doctor.
(3) The degree of permanent impairment must be assessed in the way prescribed under a regulation and a report must be given to the insurer stating—
(a) the matters taken into account, and the weight given to the matters, in deciding the degree of permanent impairment; and
(b) any other information prescribed under a regulation.