Workers Compensation Act 1987 Workers Compensation (Transitional Hearing Loss Claims) Amendment Regulation 1996 (1996-276) [GG No 77 of 28.6.1996] (NSW)

1996 No 276

New South Wales

Workers Compensation

(Transitional—Hearing Loss Claims)

Amendment 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.

JEFFREY SHAW, Q.C., M.L.C. Minister for Industrial Relations

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to extend a transitional regulation that delays the operation of amendments made to the Workers Compensation Act 1987 in 1995. Those amendments provide that there is to be no entitlement to lump sum compensation for further hearing loss (after the first 6%) unless the further loss is at least 5%.

The existing transitional regulation operates by providing that the amendments do not apply to a claim for compensation made or court proceedings commenced before 1 July 1996. This regulation will extend the transitional regulation by 6 months (until 1 January 1997).

This Regulation is made under Part 20 of Schedule 6 to the Workers

Compensation Act 1987.

Published in Gazette No 77 of 28 June 1996, page 3469 Page 1

1996 No 276

Clause 1 Workers Compensation (Transitional-Hearing Loss Claims)

Amendment Regulation 1996

Workers Compensation (Transitional-Hearing

Loss Claims) Amendment Regulation 1996

1 Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Workers Compensation (Transitional—

Hearing Loss Claims) Amendment Regulation 1996.

2 Amendment of Workers Compensation (Transitional—Hearing

Loss Claims) Regulation 1995

The Workers Compensation (Transitional-Hearing Loss Claims)

Regulation 1995 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

3 Notes

The explanatory note does not form part of this Regulation.

Schedule 1 Amendment of Workers Compensation
(Transitional—Hearing Loss Claims)
Regulation 1995

(Clause 2)

Clause 4 Further hearing loss amendments not to apply until 1

July 1996

Omit “ l July 1996”.

Insert instead “ 1 January 1997”.