Seamen's Compensation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1947. No. .

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE SEAMEN’S COMPENSATION ACT 1911-1947.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Seamen’s Compensation Act 1911-1947.

Dated this third day of September , 1947.

W.J. McKell

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Supply and Shipping.

 

Amendments of the Seamen’s Compensation Regulations.

Definition.

1.Regulation 3 of the Seamen’s Compensation Regulations is amended by omitting the definition of “Dependants” and inserting in its stead the following definition:—

• “ ‘Dependants’

   means, in relation to a deceased seaman—

  (a) a member of the seaman’s family;

  (b) a person to whom the seaman stood in loco parentis or who stood in loco parentis to the seaman;

  (c) any ex-nuptial child or grand-child of the seaman; and

  (d)if the seaman was an ex-nuptial child, any parent or grand-parent of the seaman,

  who was wholly or in part dependent upon his earnings at the time of his death or who would, but for his incapacity due to injury, have been so dependent.”.

Application for payment of weekly payment to person under legal disability.

2. Regulation 59 of the Seamen’s Compensation Regulations is amended by omitting the words. “ Comptroller-General” and inserting in their stead the words “Director of Navigation”.

Paragraph 7, First Schedule, Act.

3. Regulation 113 of the Seamen’s Compensation Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Notification on left-handedness.

“113. A seaman who habitually uses his left hand and arm to perform work usually performed by a seaman with his right hand and arm may notify the prescribed authority of that fact in accordance with Form 68 in the Schedule.”.

The Schedule.

4. The schedule is amended by inserting at the end thereof the following form:—

Form 68.

NOTIFICATION OF LEFT-HANDEDNESS.

“I,  being about to engage as a on the ship   hereby notify the Prescribed Authority that I habitually use my left hand and arm to perform work usually performed by a seaman with his right hand and arm.

Date  /  /19  .  (Signature)  ”

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1947.

  Statutory Rules 1926, No. 135, as amended by Statutory Rules 1927, No. 71 ; 1936, No. 73; 1939, No. 67; and 1942, No. 93.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

4731.—Price 3d.  8/28.7.1947.