Workers' Compensation Act Amendment Act 1959 (WA)

1959.] Workers' Compensation. [No. 66.

WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

8° Elizabeth II., No. LXVI.

No. 66 of 1959.

AN ACT to amend the Workers' Compensation

Act, 1912-1956.

[Assented to 10th December, 1959.]

BE 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:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Workers'	Short title
and citation.

Compensation Act Amendment Act, 1959.

Reprinted in

(2) In this Act the Workers' Compensation Act, Vol. 13 of The Reprinted

1912-1956, is referred to as the principal Act.

Acts, as

approved

for reprint,

22nd May,

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act 1958.

may be cited as the Workers' Compensation Act,

1912-1959.

No. 66.] Workers' Compensation. [1959.

Commence•

ment. 2. This Act shall come into operation on a day

to be fixed by proclamation.

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

(a)	by inserting immediately before the word, "basic" where it appears in each of lines five, seven, nine and twenty-one of para- graph (a) of subsection (5), the word, "male" in each case;
(b)	by inserting immediately before the word, "basic" in line fifteen of subsection (6), the word, "male".