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WORKPLACE INJURY MANAGEMENT AND WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT 1998 - SECT 339
Maximum fees payable to health service providers
(1) The Authority may, by order published in the Gazette, fix maximum fees for
the provision by health service providers of the following services-- (a)
provision of any report for use in connection with a claim for compensation or
work injury damages,
(b) appearance as a witness in proceedings before the
Commission or a court in connection with a claim for compensation or
work injury damages.
(2) An order under this section can fix costs and
amounts by reference to costs and amounts fixed by regulations under the
Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014 .
(3) A
health service provider is not entitled to be paid or recover any fee for
providing a service that exceeds any maximum fee fixed under this section for
the provision of the service.
(4) In this section--
"health service provider" means a person who provides a health service as
defined in the Health Care Complaints Act 1993 .
Editorial note : For orders
published under this section see Gazettes No 178 of 7.11.2003, p 10480; No 34
of 18.3.2005, p 849; No 51 of 6.5.2005, p 1640; No 166 of 23.12.2005, pp
11904, 11906; No 192 of 29.12.2006, p 12014; No 83 of 29.6.2007, p 4364; No
175 of 30.11.2007, pp 8762, 8766; No 158 of 12.12.2008, pp 12257, 12263,
12291; No 207 of 18.12.2009, pp 6398, 6400, 6402; No 135 of 17.12.2010, pp
6002, 6031, 6051; No 127 of 16.12.2011, pp 7195, 7220, 7253 (and see erratum
in Gazette No 130 of 20.12.2011, p 7269); No 12 of 3.2.2012, pp 315, 327, 332;
No 177 of 20.12.2013, pp 5939, 5945, 5973; No 119 of 12.12.2014, pp 4493,
4498, 4546; No 111 of 11.12.2015, pp 4000, 4002, 4004; No 35 of 13.5.2016, p
1048; No 111 of 9.12.2016, pp 3408, 3472, 3475; No 126 of 24.11.2017, pp 7161,
7172, 7203; No 138 of 14.12.2018, n2018-4200, n2018-4201, n2018-4204; No 5 of
25.1.2019, n2019-115; No 180 of 20.12.2019, n2019-4067, n2019-4068,
n2019-4073; No 52 of 20.3.2020, p 1032, n2020-800; No 83 of 17.4.2020, pp
1420, 1489, 1504, n2020-1055, n2020-1060, n2020-1061 and No 78 of 26.2.2021,
n2021-0403, n2021-0407, n2021-0409. From April 2021, PCO is no longer updating
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