Seamen's Compensation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1982 No. 292 1

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 21 October 1982.

N. M. STEPHEN Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

F. M. CHANEY

Minister of State for Social Security

7 Paragraph (10A) of Schedule 1 1,615.00

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	Column 2	Column 3 Amount
Item	Provision	prescribed

S

1	Sub-section 5B (1)	40,320.00
2	Sub-section 5D (1)	40,320.00
3	Clause (1) (a) (iii) of Schedule 1	1,050.00

4	Clause (1) (b) (i) of Schedule 1	33.90
5	Clause (1) (b) (ii) of Schedule 1	16.15
6	Clause (1) (c) (i) of Schedule 1	129.45

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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) "$37,150" and substituting "$40,320";

and

(b) by omitting from paragraph (b) "$14.85" and substituting "$16.15".

Amount prescribed for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) (b) of

Schedule 1 to the Act

3. Regulation 120 of the Seamen's Compensation Regulations is amended

by omitting "$119.30" and substituting "$129.45".

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 on or after 1 November

1982; and

(b)	payments of compensation (other than weekly payments) under the
Seamen s Compensation Act 1911 in respect of—

(i) an injury sustained, or a disease suffered, by a seaman on or

after 1 November 1982; or

(ii) a loss or event that occurs on or after 1 November 1982

resulting from any other injury sustained, or disease suffered, by

a seaman.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 October 1982.

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 No. 97.