Seamen's Compensation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1988 No. 1231

Seamen’s Compensation Regulations2

(Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Seamen’s Compensation Act 1911.

Dated 3 June 1988.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

B. HOWE

Minister of State for Social Security

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Amounts prescribed for the purposes of certain provisions of the Act

 1. Regulation 118 of the Seamen’s Compensation Regulations is amended by omitting the table and substituting the following table:

AMOUNTS OF COMPENSATION

 

Column 1   Item	Column 2   Provision of the Act	Column 3 Amount prescribed
$
1	Subsection 5B (1) ……………………………………………………...	59,980.00
2	Subsection 5D (1) ……………………………………………………...	59,980.00
3	Clause (1) (a) (iii) of Schedule 1 ………………………………………	1,550.00
4	Clause (1) (b) (i) of Schedule 1 ………………………………………..	50.50
5	Clause (1) (b) (ii) of Schedule 1 ……………………………………….	24.00
6	Subclause (1) (c) (i) (B) of Schedule 1 ………………………..………	192.80
7	Paragraph (10A) of Schedule 1 ………………………………………..	2,400.00

Amounts prescribed for the purposes of clause (1) (a) (i) of Schedule 1 to the Act

 2. Regulation 119 of the Seamen’s Compensation Regulations is amended:

• (a)

  by omitting from paragraph (a) “$57,780” and substituting “$59,980”; and

• (b)

  by omitting from paragraph (b) “$23.10” and substituting “$24”.

Amount prescribed for the purposes of subparagraph (1) (b) of Schedule 1 to the Act

 3. Regulation 120 of the Seamen’s Compensation Regulations is amended by omitting “$185.70” and substituting “$192.80”.

Application

 4. The amendments effected by these Regulations apply in relation to:

• (a)

  weekly payments of compensation under the Seamen’s Compensation Act 1911 in respect of any period commencing after 12 June 1988; and

• (b)

  payments of compensation (other than weekly payments) under that Act in respect of:

  • (i)

    an injury sustained, or a disease suffered, by a seaman after 12 June 1988; or

  • (ii)

    a loss or event that occurs after 12 June 1988 resulting from any other injury sustained, or disease suffered, by a seaman.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 10 June 1988.

2. Statutory Rules 1926 No. 135 as amended by 1927 No. 71; 1936 No. 73; 1939 No. 67; 1942 No. 93; 1947 No. 124; 1950 No. 18; 1963 No. 101; 1974 No. 86; 1980 No. 253; 1981 Nos. 248 and 358; 1982 Nos. 97 and 292; 1983 Nos. 51 and 234; 1984 Nos. 68 and 306; 1985 Nos. 43 and 283; 1986 Nos. 81 and 347; 1987 Nos. 110 and 282.