Workers Compensation Act 1987 Regulation relating to weekly wage rates of certain incapacitated workers and to medical referees and panels (1992-134) [GG No 38 of 20.3.1992] (NSW)

1992—No. 134

WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT 1987—REGULATION

(Relating to weekly wage rates of certain incapacitated workers and to

medical referees and panels)

NEW SOUTH WALES

[Published in Gazette No. 38 of 20 March 1992]

HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of the Workers Compensation Act 1987, has been pleased to make the Regulation set forth hereunder.

JOHN FAHEY

Minister for Industrial Relations,

Minister for Further Education,

Training and Employment.

The Workers Compensation (General) Regulation 1987 is amended:

(a) by inserting after clause 9A the following clause:

Clause 7 (2) (b) of Part 4 of Schedule 6: prescribed rate

9AB. For the purposes of clause 7 (2) (b) of Part 4 of Schedule 6 to the Act, the prescribed rate in respect of a period specified in Column 1 of the Table to this clause is the rate specified in Column 2 of that Table opposite that period.

TABLE

Column 1	Column 2
Period	Amount per

week

On and after 1 April 1992 ................................. $351.50

(b) by omitting clauses 13, 17 (1), (2), (4) and (5) and 18 and Forms 5 and 6 in Schedule 1.

1992—No. 134

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Clause 7 (2) (b) of Part 4 of Schedule 6 to the Workers Compensation Act 1987 allows regulations made under that Act to change the “current weekly wage rate” (for the purpose of calculating the amount of compensation) of certain workers who became entitled to receive weekly payments in respect of incapacity for work before 1 February 1992. The object of this Regulation is to increase that rate from $341.30 per week to $351.50 per week.

The Regulation omits clause 13 of the Workers Compensation (General)
Regulation 1987 (which prescribed the manner in which a claim for compensation
under the Act was to be made) as it has been superseded by section 92A of the Act.

The Regulation also omits clauses and forms relating to medical referees and panels as a consequence of the transfer of the administration of those referees and panels to the Compensation Court.