Seamen's Compensation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1980 No. 253

REGULATIONS UNDER THE SEAMAN’S COMPENSATION ACT 19111

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 Seaman’s Compensation Act 1911.

Dated this thirty-first day of August 1980.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

MARGARET GUILFOYLE

Minister of State for Social Security

Amendments of the Seamen’s Compensation Regulations2

 1. Regulation 118 of the Seamen’s Compensation Regulations is repealed and the following regulations are substituted:

Amounts prescribed for the purposes of certain provisions of the Act

• “118.

  For the purposes of a provision of the Act referred to in Column 2 of the following table in an item in that table, the amount prescribed is the amount referred to in Column 3 of that table in that item:

AMOUNTS OF COMPENSATION

Column 1 Item	Column 2 Provision	Column 3 Amount prescribed
$
1	Sub-section 5B (1)	32,500.00
2	Sub-section 5D (1)	32,500.00
3	Clause (1) (a) (iii) of Schedule 1	850.00
4	Clause (1) (b) (i) of Schedule 1	27.50
5	Clause (1) (b) (ii) of Schedule 1	13.10
6	Clause (1) (c) (i) of Schedule 1	105.00
7	Paragraph (10A) of Schedule 1	1,310.00

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

• “119.

  For the purposes of clause (1) (a) (i) of Schedule 1 to the Act —

  • (a)

    the amount prescribed, being the amount higher than the sum of $28,000 referred to in that clause, is $32,500; and

  • (b)

    the amount prescribed, being the amount higher than the sum of $11.25 referred to in that clause, is $13.10.

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

• “120.

  For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) (b) of Schedule 1 to the Act, the amount prescribed, being the amount higher than the amount of $90 referred to in that subparagraph, is $105.”.

Application

 2. The amendments effected by regulation 1 apply in relation to —

• (a)

  weekly payments of compensation under the Act in respect of any period commencing on or after 1 September 1980; and

• (b)

  payments of compensation (other than weekly payments) under the Act in respect of —

  • (i)

    an injury sustained, or a disease suffered, by a seaman on or after 1 September 1980; or

  • (ii)

    a loss or event that occurs on or after 1 September 1980 resulting from any other injury sustained, or disease suffered, by a seaman.

Notes

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 1 September 1980.

2. Statutory Rules 1926 No. 135 as amended by Statutory Rules 1927 No. 71; 1936 No. 73; 1939 No. 67; 1942 No. 93; 1947 No. 124; 1950 No. 18; 1963 No. 101; 1974 No. 86.