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

20 March 2015 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 911

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Workers' Compensation and Injury Management Act 1981

Workers' Compensation and Injury

Management (Scales of Fees) Amendment

Regulations 2015

Made by the Lieutenant-Governor and deputy of the Governor in section 292 of the Act.

Management (Scales of Fees) Regulations 1998.

1.           Citation

These regulations are the Workers' Compensation and Injuly Management (Scales of Fees) 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.

3.            Regulations amended

These regulations amend the Workers' Compensation and Injury

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4.            Regulation 7C inserted

After regulation 7B insert:

7C.	Scale of fees - acupuncturists
(1)	In this regulation - acupuncturist means a person whose name is entered on the Register of Chinese Medicine Practitioners kept under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (Western Australia) in the Division of acupuncture.
(2)	Under section 292(2)(a)(viii) of the Act, the fixed fee of $71.60 for each consultation is prescribed as the fee to be paid to an acupuncturist for acupuncture provided to a worker suffering injuries that are compensable under the Act.

Recommended by WorkCover WA on the 3rd day of March 2015.

R. KENNEDY, Clerk of the Executive Council.