Seamen's Compensation Amendment Act 1979 (Cth)

Seamen’s Compensation Amendment Act 1979

No. 102 of 1979

An Act to amend section 11 of the Seamen’s Compensation Act 1911 in consequence of certain amendments of the Navigation Act 1912.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title, &c.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Seamen’s Compensation Amendment Act 1979.

(2) The Seamen’s Compensation Act 1911 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on the date of commencement of sub-section 4(3) of the Navigation Amendment Act 1979.

Depositions where injured seamen left overseas

3. Section 11 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b) of sub-section (1) “a Commonwealth country or in the Republic of Ireland” and substituting “a prescribed country”;

(b) by omitting from sub-section (3) the definition of “Commonwealth country”; and

(c) by adding at the end of sub-section (3) the following definition:

“‘prescribed country’ has the same meaning as in section 400 of the Navigation Act 1912.”.