Employees Compensation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1936. No. 160.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYEES’ COMPENSATION ACT 1930.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Commonwealth Employees Compensation Act 1930.

Dated this Eighth day of December ,1936.

(SGD.) GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Treasurer.

 

Amendments of Employees’ Compensation Regulations. 

1. Regulation 11 of the Employees’ Compensation Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Commonwealth authorities.

“14.—The authorities under the Commonwealth to employees of which the application of the Act shall extend shall be as follows:—

Commonwealth Bank of Australia;

Commonwealth Savings Bank of Australia;

Repatriation Commission;

War Service Homes Commissioner;

Commonwealth Railways Commissioner;

Australian Commonwealth Shipping Board;

Commonwealth Council for Scientific and Industrial Research;

The Board of Management appointed under the Australian War Memorial Act 1925;

Australian Broadcasting Commission;

Canberra Community Hospital Board.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1936.

  Statutory Rules 1930, No. 134, as amended by Statutory Rules 1931, Nos. 134 and 143; 1932, No. 143; 1933, No. 141; 1934, No. 79; 1935, No. 33; and 1936, No. 30.

5859.—6/23.11.1936.—Price 3d.

2. The Schedule to the Employees’ Compensation Regulations is amended by omitting Forms C and E and inserting in their stead the following Forms:—

“Form C.

[Front of Form.]

Commonwealth of Australia.

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Commonwealth Employees’ Compensation Act 1930.

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REPORT OF MEDICAL REFEREE MEDICAL BOARD, OR MEDICAL PRACTITIONER.

*I/We .....................................*Medical Referee/a Medical Board/Medical Practitioner under the Commonwealth Employees’ Compensation Act, have this day examined…………………………………..of……………………….., whose signature appears in the margin of this Form, a claimant for compensation under the above-named Act. On examination—

*I/We find that claimant is about………………………………..years of age and is suffering from (a)........................................................

The above condition is the result of (b) ………………………………………., and is such that the claimant is thereby incapacitated at present to the extent of per cent. of total incapacity at his usual occupation, and per cent. of total incapacity in the general labour market. Claimant is fit to undertake employment in such occupations as……………………….

(c) The above condition is the result of ........................................................... , an industrial disease mentioned in the first column of the Second Schedule to the above-named Act. Such disease *was/was not caused within twelve months prior to the date of claimant’s becoming incapacitated by his employment by the Commonwealth in the process of.............................................................................................................

In *my/our opinion claimant *has/has not previously suffered from the above mentioned industrial disease. The disease *is/is not of such a nature as is contracted by a gradual process.

General Remarks—

 

Signature of claimant...............

 

……………………………………

*Medical Referee.

Medical Board.

Medical Practitioner.

Date ………………,19.

 

* Strike out what is inapplicable.

(a)Fully describe claimant’s general condition.

(b)State whether accident or industrial disease.

(c)This part to be filled in only in case of claimant suffering from an industrial disease.

Attention is invited to the provisions of the Second and Third Schedules to the Act, copies of which are shown on the back of this form.

Form C.

[Bach of Form.]

THE SECOND SCHEDULE. Section 10.

Description of Disease.	Description of Process.
Arsenic, phosphorus, lead, mercury or other mineral poisoning	Any employment involving the use or handling of arsenic, phosphorus, lead, mercury or other mineral, or their preparations or compounds
Anthrax..............................................................................	Woolcombing, woolsorting; handling of hides, skins, wool, hair, bristles or carcasses
Zymotic diseases..............................................................	Persons employed in a hospital or quarantine station, or in an ambulance brigade
Poisoning by benzol or its homologues or their nitro and amido derivatives (dinitro-benzol, anilin and others)..	Any process involving the use of benzol or its homologues or their nitro and amido derivatives or their preparations or compounds
Poisoning by carbon bisulphide.....................................	Any process involving the use of carbon bisulphide or its preparations or compounds
Poisoning by nitrous fumes............................................	Any process in which nitrous fumes are evolved
Poisoning by cyanogen compounds.............................	Any process in which cyanogen compounds are used
Poisoning by carbon monoxide.....................................	Any process in which carbon monoxide is used or evolved
Chrome ulceration............................................................	Any process involving the use of chromic acid, or bichromate of ammonium, potassium or sodium or their preparations
Dermatitis produced by dust or caustic or corrosive liquids or ulceration of the mucous membranes of the nose or mouth produced by dust	Any industrial process
Ankylostomiasis...............................................................	Any employment involving exposure to hookworm infestation
Pneumoconiosis................................................................	Quarrying or stone crushing or cutting
Nystagmus.........................................................................
Subcutaneous cellulitis of the hand (beat hand).........
Subcutaneous cellulitis over the patella (miner’s beat knee)...................................................................................	Mining, or quarrying, or stone crushing or cutting
Acute bursitis over the elbow (miner’s beat elbow)...
Inflammation of the synovial lining of the wrist joint and tendon sheath..........................................................

THE THIRD SCHEDULE.

Section 12.

 

Compensation for Specified Injuries.

Nature of Injury.	Amount Payable.
£	s.	d.
Loss of both eyes.................................................................................................
Loss of both hands...............................................................................................
Loss of both feet..................................................................................................	750	0	0
Loss of a hand and a foot......................................................................................
Total and incurable loss of mental powers, involving inability to work....................
Total and incurable paralysis of limbs or mental powers.........................................
Loss of either arm, or of the greater part thereof.........................................................	675	0	0
Loss of lower part of either arm, either hand, or five fingers of either hand...................	600	0	0
Loss of leg...............................................................................................................	600	0	0

The Third Schedule—continued.

Nature of Injury.	Amount Payable.
£.	s.	d.
Loss of the lower part of a leg................................................................................	562	10	0
Loss of a foot........................................................................................................	525	0	0
Loss of one eye, with serious diminution of the sight of the other.............................	675	0	0
Loss of sight of one eye*.......................................................................................	375	0	0
Loss of hearing......................................................................................................	600	0	0
Complete deafness of one ear.................................................................................	200	0	0
Loss of a thumb.....................................................................................................	225	0	0
Loss of a forefinger...............................................................................................	150	0	0
Loss of part of a thumb..........................................................................................	112	10	0
Loss of little finger, middle finger or ring finger......................................................	112	10	0
Loss of a toe or the joint of a finger........................................................................	90	0	0
Loss of a joint of a toe...........................................................................................	75	0	0

* For the partial loss of the sight of one eye, there shall be payable such percentage of the amount that would be payable for the total loss of the sight thereof as is equal to the percentage of the diminution of sight.

For the purposes of this Schedule, the loss of a specified part of the body shall be deemed to include—

(a) the loss of the use of that part; and

(b) the loss of the efficient use of that part in and for the purposes of his employment:

Provided that in that case a percentage of the prescribed amount payable, equal to the percentage of the diminution of the full efficient use as aforesaid, may be awarded in lieu of the full amount.

 

“Form E.

Commonwealth Employees’ Compensation Act 1930.

ELECTION UNDER SECTION 15.

Note.—Before making an election the employee should make himself fully acquainted with the compensation or other benefits provided for under the relative determination by the Public Service Arbitrator and under the Commonwealth Employees’ Compensation Act 1930.

I,…………………………………………….. of …………………………………, being a person entitled to elect to take compensation or benefits under the Commonwealth Employees’ Compensation Act 1930 or under the provisions of a determination made by the Public Service Arbitrator appointed under the Arbitration (Public Service) Act 1920–1929 in respect of personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of my employment, hereby elect to take compensation or benefits under the Commonwealth Employees’ Compensation Act 1930.

 

(Signature of Employee.)

Signed before me this........................................... day of……………………, 19……

Signature of witness............................................................

Occupation and address of witness.......................................

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By Authority: L.F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.