Seamen's Compensation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1981 No. 2481

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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 27 August 1981.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

F. M. CHANEY

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	Column 2	Column 3
Item	Provision	Amount prescribed
$
1	Sub-section 5b (1).......................................................	35,500.00
2	Sub-section 5d (1)......................................................	35,500.00
3	Clause (1) (a) (iii) of Schedule 1..................................	925.00
4	Clause (1) (b) (i) of Schedule 1....................................	29.85
5	Clause (1) (b) (ii) of Schedule 1...................................	14.20
6	Cause (1) (c) (i) of Schedule 1.....................................	114.00
7	Paragraph (10a) of Schedule 1....................................	1,420.00

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) “$32,500” and substituting “$35,500”; and

(b) by omitting from paragraph (b) “$13.10” and substituting “$14.20”.

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 “$105” and substituting “$114”.

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 September 1981; 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 September 1981; or

(ii) a loss or event that occurs on or after 1 September 1981 resulting from any other injury sustained, or disease suffered, by a seaman.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 31 August 1981.

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.