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WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION ACT 2003 - SECT 508

508 Assessment of additional compensation for prescribed disfigurement

(1) This section applies on a reference to the Disfigurement Assessment Tribunal under section 500(1)(h).

(2) The tribunal must assess, by personal examination of the worker—

(a) whether the disfigurement is prescribed disfigurement; and
(b) if it assesses the disfigurement to be prescribed disfigurement, the degree of permanent impairment resulting from the disfigurement.

(3) The tribunal must assess the degree of permanent impairment in the way prescribed under a regulation.



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