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Accident Compensation Act 2001

Entitlements and related matters - Vocational rehabilitation

86: Matters to be considered in deciding whether to provide vocational rehabilitation

You could also call this:

"Deciding if you can get help to return to work"

When deciding if you should get vocational rehabilitation, the Corporation must look at the things mentioned in section 87. Vocational rehabilitation is meant to help you get back to work.

The Corporation will first try to see if you can go back to the same job you had before you were hurt, with the same employer. If that's not possible, they will look at other options.

These other options include:

  1. Seeing if you can do a different job with the same employer.
  2. Checking if you can do your old job but with a new employer.
  3. Finding out if you can do a different job with a new employer, using your experience, education, or training.
  4. Helping you use as many of your old work skills as possible to find a new job.

The Corporation will think about all these things to decide what kind of vocational rehabilitation is best for you.

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Part 4Entitlements and related matters
Vocational rehabilitation

86Matters to be considered in deciding whether to provide vocational rehabilitation

  1. In deciding whether to provide vocational rehabilitation, the Corporation must have regard to the matters in section 87.

  2. In deciding what vocational rehabilitation is appropriate for the claimant to achieve the purpose of vocational rehabilitation under section 80,—

  3. the Corporation must consider whether it is reasonably practicable to return the claimant to the same employment in which the claimant was engaged, and with the employer who was employing the claimant, when the claimant's incapacity commenced; and
    1. if it is not, the Corporation must consider the following matters:
      1. whether it is reasonably practicable to return the claimant to an employment of a different kind with that employer:
        1. whether it is reasonably practicable to return the claimant to the employment in which the claimant was engaged when the claimant's incapacity commenced, but with a different employer:
          1. whether it is reasonably practicable to return the claimant to a different employment with a different employer, in which the claimant is able to use his or her experience, education, or training:
            1. whether it is reasonably practicable to help the claimant use as many of his or her pre-injury skills as possible to obtain employment.