Sporting Injuries Insurance Act 1978 Rule relating to the reimbursement of certain costs (1995-202) [GG No 66 of 2.6.1995] (NSW)

1995—No. 202

SPORTING INJURIES INSURANCE ACT 1978—RULE

(Relating to the reimbursement of certain costs)

NEW SOUTH WALES

[Published in Gazette No. 66 of 2 June 1995]

HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of the Sporting Injuries Insurance Act 1978, has been pleased to approve the Rule made by the Sporting Injuries Committee and set forth hereunder.

JEFFREY WILLIAM SHAW, Q.C., M.L.C.,

Minister for Industrial Relations.

The Sporting Injuries Committee, in pursuance of the Sporting Injuries

Insurance Act 1978, hereby makes the following Rule:

Commencement

1. This Rule commences on 1 July 1995.

Amendment

2. The Sporting Injuries Insurance Rules 1981 are amended by

inserting after Part 3 the following Part:

PART 4—MISCELLANEOUS

Committee may reimburse applicant for certain costs

10. (1) The Committee may reimburse an applicant for benefits under section 19 of the Act for some or all of the costs incurred in connection with the supply of a certificate or report for the purposes of Rule 5 (a) (i) or (b) (i) or (ii).

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(2) The Committee may reimburse an applicant whose application under section 19 of the Act was made, but was not finally determined, before the date of commencement of this clause for some or all of costs of the kind referred to in subclause (1).

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Section 31 (1) (f) of the Sporting Injuries Insurance Act 1978 (as amended by the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 2) 1994) empowers the Sporting Injuries Committee to make rules for or with respect to the reimbursement (or non- reimbursement) by the Committee of any costs incurred by an applicant in making an application for benefits under the Act.

The object of this Rule is to amend the Sporting Injuries Insurance Rules 1981 to

authorise the Sporting Injuries Committee to reimburse:

(a)	an applicant who has suffered a compensable injury for some or all of the costs incurred in supplying a medical certificate or report to support his or her application for benefits; or
(b)	the legal personal representative of a person who has died as a consequence of a sporting injury for some or all of the costs incurred in supplying a copy of the deceased’s death certificate and a copy of the report of any post mortem examination.

The Rule also authorises the Committee to reimburse costs of this kind in relation to applications that were made, but not finally determined, before the date of commencement of the Rule.

This Rule is made under section 31 (Rules) of the Sporting Injuries Insurance Act