Employees' Compensation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1958. No. 40.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYEES’ COMPENSATION ACT 1930-1956.*

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 1930-1956.

Dated this twelfth day of June, 1958.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd.) A. W. FADDEN

Treasurer.

 

Amendments of the Employees’ Compensation Regulations. 

Medical examinations.

1. Regulation 8 of the Employees’ Compensation Regulations is amended by omitting the words “The medical referee, medical practitioner, or medical board to whom or to which a matter is referred” and inserting in their stead the words “The medical referee or medical board to whom or to which a matter is referred under section 19 of the Act”.

Appeals.

2. Regulation 11 of the Employees’ Compensation Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (4.) the word “seven” and inserting in its stead the words “twenty-one”.

Commonwealth authorities.

3. Regulation 15 of the Employees’ Compensation Regulations is amended by omitting the words—

“Australian Stevedoring Industry Board;”

and inserting in their stead the words—

“Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority;”.

The Schedule.

4. The Employees’ Compensation Regulations are amended by omitting Form D in the Schedule and inserting in its stead the following Form:—

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1958.

  Statutory Rules 1953, No. 22, as amended by Statutory Rules 1953, No. 73 and 1954, No. 19.

1921/58.—Price 3d. 10/17.3.1958.

 

Form D. Regulation 8.

Commonwealth Employees’ Compensation Act 1930-19 .

CERTIFICATE OF MEDICAL REFEREE OR MEDICAL BOARD.

*I/We  *a Medical Referee /*a Medical Board under the Commonwealth Employees’ Compensation Act 1930-19 have this day examined of , whose signature appears in the margin of this form, a claimant for compensation under the above-named Act, and *I/we certify as follows:—

(a) The claimant is suffering from

(b) The claimant is thereby incapacitated at present to the extent of  per centum of total incapacity at his employment at the date of the injury and  per centum of total incapacity in the general labour market.

(c) The claimant is fit to undertake employment in such occupations as

The Commissioner has also required *me/us to certify

and *I/we certify as follows:—

Dated this day of , 19 .

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* Strike out whichever is inapplicable.

  Signature of medical referee or signatures of members of a medical board.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.