Workers' Compensation and Injury Management Amendment Regulations 2015 (WA)

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Workers' Compensation and Injury Management Act 1981

Workers' Compensation and Injury

Management Amendment Regulations 2015

Made by the Lieutenant-Governor and deputy of the Governor in
Executive Council.

1.            Citation

These regulations are the Workers' Compensation and Injwy
Management Amendment Regulations 2015.

2.            Commencement

These regulations come into operation as follows —

(a)	regulations 1 and 2 — on the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette;
(b)	the rest of the regulations — on 1 April 2015.

(a) a person whose name is entered on the Register of Chinese Medicine Practitioners kept under

3.            Regulations amended

These regulations amend the Workers' Compensation and Injury
Management Regulations 1982.

4.            Regulation 44C inserted

After regulation 44B insert:

44C. Acupuncture

(1) In this regulation —

acupuncturist means —

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Health Practitioner Regulation National acupuncture; or

the

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(b) a health practitioner registered under the whose registration is endorsed for acupuncture.

Practitioner Regulation National Law (Western

(2) Where acupuncture is approved under section 5(1) of

the Act as an approved treatment for workers suffering
an injury that is compensable under the Act, that

treatment can only be provided by an acupuncturist.

R. KENNEDY, Clerk of the Executive Council.