Seamen's Compensation Regulations 1910 (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1910. No. 70.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE SEAMEN’S COMPENSATION ACT 1909.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulations under the Seamen’s Compensation Act 1909 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulations to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations.

Dated this 29th day of July, One thousand nine hundred and ten.

DUDLEY,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

FRANK G. TUDOR,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

 

SEAMEN’S COMPENSATION REGULATIONS.

Short Title.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Seamen’s Compensation Regulations 1910.

Interpretation.

2. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—

“the Act” means the Seamen’s Compensation Act 1909.

Fee to Medical Referee.

3. The fee payable to a medical referee shall be as follows:—

£	s.	d.
For a first examination.......................................................	2	0	0
For a subsequent examination............................................	1	0	0

Prescribed Authority.

4. Wherever in the First Schedule or the Second Schedule to the Act a prescribed authority is referred to, that authority shall in each State be the Collector of Customs for the State.

Moneys Received by Prescribed Authorities.

5. All moneys received by a prescribed authority in pursuance of paragraph (6) or paragraph (7) of the First Schedule to the Act shall be dealt with by such authority in accordance with the directions of the Comptroller-General.

Fee on application for Reference to a Medical Referee.

6. The fee payable under paragraph 13 of the First Schedule to the Act shall be Two pounds.

C. 10622.—Price 3d.

Appeal to High Court or Supreme Court from Decision of County Court.

7. (1) An appeal under paragraph (3) of the Second Schedule to the Act may be instituted by notice of appeal in accordance with this Regulation.

(2) The party appealing shall, within twenty-one days after the decision or order appealed against is made, serve the notice of appeal on the opposite party, and shall file a copy of the notice of appeal in the County Court and in the Registry of the High Court in the State or the Supreme Court of the State, as the case requires.

(3) The notice of appeal must state the grounds of appeal, and must set out the Court to which the appeal is made.

(4) The Registrar or other proper officer of the County Court in which the notice of appeal is filed shall, forthwith after receiving it, send to the Registrar or other proper officer of the Court to which the appeal is made all such proceedings in the County Court as are necessary to the hearing of the appeal.

Application of Rules of High Court or Supreme Court.

8. The Rules of the High Court or the Rules of the Supreme Court, as the case requires, shall, subject to these Regulations, apply to appeals under paragraph (3) of the Second Schedule to the Act, so far as such Rules are applicable.

 

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