State Government Insurance Office Act Amendment Act 1965 (WA)

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STATE GOVERNMENT

INSURANCE OFFICE.

No. 18 of 1965.

AN ACT to amend the State Government Insurance

Office Act, 1938-1958.

[Assented to 1st October, 1965.]

RE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent ." Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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and citation	1. (1) This Act may be cited as the State Government Insurance Office Act Amendment Act, 1965.
Reprinted

in Vol. 14	(2) In this Act the State Government Insurance
of the

Reprinted

Office Act, 1938-1958, is referred to as the principal

Acts.

Approved

Act.

for Reprint

14th Septem-

ber, 1959.

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(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the State Government Insurance

Office Act, 1938-1965.

2. Section two of the principal Act is amended

(a) by adding after the interpretation, "friendly society", the following interpre- tation

"General Manager" means the person appointed by the Governor, or deemed to have been so appointed, to be the General Manager of the State Government Insurance Office under subsection (la) of section four, and for the purposes, of this Act; ;

(b) by substituting for paragraphs (a) and (b) of the interpretation, "insurance business" the following paragraphs

(a) in relation to the liability of any employer, having a place of employ- ment in the State, for payment to his employees there employed or to the dependants of those employees of-

(i)  payments or allowances payable under the Workers' Compensation Act, 1912, or under any statute or ordin- ance relating to workers' compensation in force in any part of the Commonwealth or any Territory of the Common- wealth;

(ii)   compensation or allowances in respect of injury suffered by an employee during his employment in pursuance of

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any enforceable agreement or undertaking made or given by the employer with or to, or in respect of, his employees in relation to whom he is not liable under the provisions of subparagraph (i) of this para- graph; and

(iii) compensation or damages in respect of injury suffered by an employee during his employment payable at common law or pursuant to any Act in force in this State or any statute or ordinance in force in any other part of the Commonwealth or any Terri- tory of the Commonwealth, not being an Act, statute or ordinance ref erred to in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph;

(b) in relation to the liabilities in respect of which policies of insurance are required to be effected under the provisions of section thirty-seven of the Bush Fires Act, 1954, by local authorities within the meaning of that Act; ;

(0) by deleting the proviso to paragraph (b1)

of the interpretation, "insurance business";

(d) by substituting for the passage, "(c) for the purposes of section six of this Act the term also includes" in lines one and two of paragraph (c) of the interpretation, "insurance business", the f o 11 o w in g passage

The term "insurance business" also

includes

(a) for the purposes of section six of this Act, ;

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(e)	by substituting for the passage, "(d) the term also includes" in line one of paragraph (d) of the interpretation, "insurance business", the paragraph designation, " (b)";
(f)	by adding after paragraph (d) of the interpretation, "insurance business", the following paragraph

(c) re-insurance of any liability or risk referred to in the interpretation of the term and the acceptance from other insurers of any liability or risk of a kind referred to in the interpre- tation of the term; ;

(g)	by substituting for the passage, "municipal council, a road board, a local authority within the meaning of the Health Act, 1911-1944" in lines one, two and three of the interpretation, "local authority", the passage, "council of a municipality within the meaning of the Local Government Act, 1960, a local authority within the meaning of the Health Act, 1911"; and
(h)	by deleting the interpretation, "Manager".

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3. Section four of the principal Act is amended amended.

(a)	by substituting for the word, "manager" in the last line of subsection (1), the words, "General Manager";
(b)	by substituting for the passage, "1904-1935, appoint a person to be the Manager" in lines two and three of subsection (la), the passage, "1904, appoint a person to be the General Manager";
(c)	by substituting for the words, "this subsection already appointed and acting as Manager of the said" in lines five, six and seven of subsection (la), the passage, "the State Government Insurance Office Act Amendment Act, 1965, appointed and acting as General Manager of the"; and

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(d) by substituting for the word, "Manager" in line four of subsection (2), the words, "General Manager".

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amended. 4. Section seven of the principal Act is amended by repealing subsection (6).