Commonwealth
Employees’ Compensation
No. 96 of 1967
An
Act to increase certain amounts of Compensation payable to Employees of the
Commonwealth and to amend the Commonwealth
Employees’ Compensation Act 1930–1964 in
relation to Decimal Currency
[Assented
to 9 November 1967]
BE
it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of
Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia,. as follows:—
Short
title and citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Commonwealth Employees’ Compensation Act 1967.
(2.) The Commonwealth
Employees’ Compensation Act 1930-1964 is in this Act referred to as the
Principal Act.
(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act,
may be cited as the Commonwealth
Employees’ Compensation Act 1930-1967.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives
the Royal Assent.
Medical
benefits.
3. Section 11 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section
(2b.) the words “Five hundred
pounds” and inserting in their stead the words “One thousand dollars”.
Compensation
for certain injuries.
4.Section 12 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting
sub-section; (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-sections:—
“(1.) Subject to this Act, where an employee
sustains, by accident: arising out of or in the course of his employment, any
of the injuries specified in Part I. of the Third Schedule to this Act, the
compensation payable shall, when the injury results in incapacity other than
total and permanent incapacity for work, be the amount of Ten thousand dollars.
“(1aa.) Subject to this Act, where an employee
sustains, by accident, arising out of or in the course of his employment, any
of the injuries specified in the first column of Part II. of the Third Schedule
to this Act, the compensation payable shall, when the injury results in
incapacity other than total and permanent incapacity for work, be the amount
equal to such percentage of the amount specified in the last preceding
sub-section. as is specified in the second column of that Part opposite the
specification of the injury in the first column.”.
Maximum
compensation.
5. Section 13 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section
(1.) the words “Four thousand three hundred pounds” and inserting in their
stead the words “Ten thousand dollars”.
First
Schedule.
6. The First Schedule to the Principal Act is amended as set out in
the following table:—
Provision amended | Omit— | Insert- |
Paragraph (1.) (a)(i)................. | Four thousand three hundred pounds | Ten thousand dollars |
Paragraph (1.) (a)(iii)............... | Sixty pounds | One hundred and twenty dollars |
Paragraph (1.) (b)..................... | Eleven pounds eleven shillings | Twenty-five dollars thirty-five cents |
Paragraph (1.) (b)(i)................. | Two pounds fourteen shillings and sixpence | Six dollars |
Paragraph (1.) (b)(ii)................ | One pound two shillings and sixpence | Two dollars forty-five cents |
Paragraph (1.) (c) (i)................. | Eleven pounds eleven shillings | Twenty-five dollars thirty-five cents |
Paragraph (1a.) (a)(ii).............. | Seven hundred pounds | One thousand six hundred and fifty dollars |
Paragraph (1a.) (b)(iii)............. | Eight pounds thirteen shillings and threepence | Nineteen dollars |
Eleven pounds eleven shillings | Twenty-five dollars thirty-five cents |
Paragraph (9a.)........................ | than One hundred pounds and One hundred pounds | than Two hundred dollars and Two hundred dollars |
Third
Schedule.
7. The Third Schedule to the Principal Act is repealed and the
Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Act inserted in its stead.
Adjustment
of weekly payments, &c., under prior Acts.
8.—(1.) Where, immediately before the date of
commencement of this Act, a person was receiving weekly payments under the Commonwealth Workmen’s Compensation Act 1912
or was receiving, or was entitled to receive, weekly payments in accordance
with the First Schedule to the Principal Act, he is, from and including that
date, entitled to receive weekly payments in accordance with the Principal Act
as amended this by Act.
(2.) Where, before the date of commencement of
this Act, an employee sustained an injury or contracted a disease in respect of
which weekly payments in accordance with the First Schedule to the Principal
Act would have been payable immediately before that date but for the fact that
he was not then incapacitated for work, and on or after that date he becomes
incapacitated for work as a result of the injury or disease, weekly payments in
respect of that incapacity shall be in accordance with the Principal Act as amended
by this Act.
(3.) Where, on or after the date of commencement
of this Act, death results from an injury or a disease that was sustained or
contracted before that date and in respect of which compensation was payable
under the Principal Act, compensation shall be paid in respect of that death in
accordance with the Principal Act as amended by this Act.
(4.) Where, immediately before the date of
commencement of this Act, an employee was receiving, or was entitled to
receive, weekly payments in accordance with the First Schedule to the Principal
Act in respect of an injury or injuries sustained or a disease contracted
before that date, the provisions of section 13 of the Principal Act as amended
by this Act apply in relation to the injury, injuries or disease.
(5.) The amendments made by sections 4 and 7 of
this Act apply in relation to an injury sustained on or after the date of
commencement of this Act notwithstanding that the accident or disease that
caused the injury occurred before that date.
THE SCHEDULE Sections 4
and 7.
Schedule Inserted in the Principal Act by this Act
THE
THIRD SCHEDULE Section
12.
Part I.
Injuries in respect of which the Amount of
Compensation Specified in
Section 12 (1.) is Payable
Loss
of both eyes
Loss
of an only useful eye, the other being blind or absent
Loss
of both hands
Loss
of hand and foot
Loss
of both feet
Part II.
Injuries in respect of which a Percentage of the
Amount of Compensation Specified in Section 12
(1.) is Payable
First
Column | Second
Column |
Nature
of Injury | Percentage |
Loss
of one eye, with serious diminution of the sight of the other...........................................................
| 75 |
Loss
of one eye.........................................................................................................................................
| 40 |
Loss
of hearing..........................................................................................................................................
| 70 |
Complete
deafness of one ear...................................................................................................................
| 20 |
Loss
of right arm or greater part of right arm...........................................................................................
| 80 |
Loss
of left arm or greater part of left arm................................................................................................
| 72 |
Loss
of lower part of right arm, right hand or five fingers of right hand.................................................
| 70 |
Loss
of lower part of left arm, left hand or five fingers of left hand........................................................
| 63 |
Loss
of right thumb...................................................................................................................................
| 30 |
Loss
of left thumb.....................................................................................................................................
| 27 |
Loss
of right forefinger.............................................................................................................................
| 20 |
Loss
of left forefinger...............................................................................................................................
| 18 |
Loss
of right middle finger.......................................................................................................................
| 16 |
Loss
of left middle finger..........................................................................................................................
| 15 |
Loss
of right ring finger............................................................................................................................
| 14 |
Loss
of left ring finger..............................................................................................................................
| 13 |
Loss
of right little finger...........................................................................................................................
| 13 |
Loss
of left little finger.............................................................................................................................
| 12 |
Loss
of total movement of joint of right thumb........................................................................................
| 14 |
Loss
of total movement of joint of left thumb..........................................................................................
| 13 |
Loss
of distal phalanx or joint of right thumb...........................................................................................
| 16 |
Loss
of distal phalanx or joint of left thumb.............................................................................................
| 15 |
Loss
of portion of terminal segment of right thumb involving one-third of its
flexor surface without loss of distal phalanx or joint.................................................................................................................................................
| 14 |
Loss
of portion of terminal segment of left thumb involving one-third of its
flexor surface without loss of distal phalanx or joint.................................................................................................................................................
| 13 |
Loss
of two phalanges or joints of right forefinger...................................................................................
| 12 |
Loss
of two phalanges or joints of left forefinger.....................................................................................
| 11 |
Loss
of two phalanges or joints of right middle or ring finger.................................................................
| 11 |
Loss
of two phalanges or joints of left middle or ring finger...................................................................
| 10 |
Loss
of two phalanges or joints of right little finger.................................................................................
| 10 |
Loss
of two phalanges or joints of left little finger...................................................................................
| 9 |
Loss
of distal phalanx or joint of right forefinger.....................................................................................
| 10 |
Loss
of distal phalanx or joint of left forefinger.......................................................................................
| 9 |
Loss
of distal phalanx or joint of other finger of right hand.....................................................................
| 8 |
Loss
of distal phalanx or joint of other finger of left hand.......................................................................
| 7 |
Loss
of leg above knee..............................................................................................................................
| 75 |
Loss
of leg below knee.............................................................................................................................
| 65 |
Loss
of foot...............................................................................................................................................
| 60 |
Loss
of great toe........................................................................................................................................
| 20 |
Loss
of any other toe.................................................................................................................................
| 8 |
Loss
of two phalanges or joints of any other toe......................................................................................
| 7 |
Loss
of phalanx or joint of great toe.........................................................................................................
| 10 |
Loss
of phalanx or joint of any other toe..................................................................................................
| 6 |