Workers Compensation Act 1987 Workers Compensation (General) Amendment (Small Business Employers) Regulation 1996 (1996-241) [GG No 76 of 26.6.1996] (NSW)

1996 No 241

New South Wales

Workers Compensation (General)

Amendment (Small Business

Employers) Regulation 1996

under the

Workers Compensation Act 1987

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Workers Compensation Act 1987.

J W Shaw QC MLC

Attorney General, and Minister for Industrial Relations.

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to increase (from $2,000 premiums to $3,000 premiums) the threshold for a small business employer for the purposes of section 160 of the Workers Compensation Act 1987. That section provides for the recovery by an insurer of an excess from an employer in respect of certain claims paid by the insurer under the employer’s policy of insurance.

This Regulation is made under the Workers Compensation Act 1987, including section 280 (the general regulation making power) and section 160.

Published in Gazette No 76 of 26 June 1996, page 3231 Page 1

1996 No 241

Clause 1 Workers Compensation (General) Amendment (Small Business Employers) Regulation 1996

Workers Compensation (General) Amendment

(Small Business Employers) Regulation 1996

1 Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Workers Compensation (General)

Amendment (Small Business Employers) Regulation 1996.

2 Commencement

This Regulation commences at 4pm on 30 June 1996.

3 Amendment of Workers Compensation (General) Regulation

1995

The Workers Compensation (General) Regulation 1995 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

4 Notes

The explanatory note does not form part of this Regulation.

Schedule 1 Amendment of Workers Compensation
(General) Regulation 1995

(Clause 3)

Clause 54 Prescriptions for purposes of $500 excess recoverable from employer

Omit “$2,000” from clause 54 (1). Insert instead “$3,000”.

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