Workers Compensation Amendment Act 1997 (NSW)
New South Wales
Workers Compensation Amendment
Act 1997 No 4
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1 Name of Act 2 2 Commencement 2 3 Amendment of Workers Compensation Act 1987 No 70 2
Schedule 1 Amendments 3
New South Wales
Workers Compensation Amendment
Act 1997 No 4
Act No 4, 1997
An Act to amend the Workers Compensation Act 1987 to make further provision with respect to workers compensation for coal miners; and for other purposes. [Assented to 23 April 1997]
| Section 1 | Workers Compensation Amendment Act 1997 No 4 |
The Legislature of New South Wales enacts:
1 Name of Act
This Act is the Workers Compensation Amendment Act 1997.
2 Commencement
(1) This Act is taken to have commenced on the date of assent to the WorkCover Legislation Amendment Act 1996, except as provided by subsection (2). (2) Schedule 1 [l] commences or is taken to have commenced on the commencement of section 52A of the Workers Compensation Act 1987 (as inserted by the WorkCover Legislation Amendment Act
1996).3 Amendment of Workers Compensation Act 1987 No 70
The Workers Compensation Act 1987 is amended as set out in
Schedule 1.
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Amendments Schedule 1 Schedule 1 Amendments
(Section 3)
[1] Section 52A Discontinuation of weekly payments after 2 years
Insert at the end of section 52A (as inserted by the WorkCover
Legislation Amendment Act 1996):
(10) This section does not apply to a worker who is permanently and totally incapacitated for work and does not apply to compensation for an injury received by a person as a worker employed in or about a mine to which the Coal Mines Regulation Act 1982 applies.
[2] Schedule 6 Savings, transitional and other provisions, Part 15 Provisions relating to insurance
Omit “279 (2A)” from clause 24. Insert instead “279 (3)”.
[3] Schedule 6, Part 18 Special provision relating to coal miners
Insert after clause 1:
2 Regulations to modify or disapply 1996 amendments in
relation to coal miners
(1) In this clause: the 1996 amendments means the amendments made to this Act by the WorkCover Legislation Amendment Act 1996 except the amendments made by Schedule 1.3 (Journey claims) to that Act. (2) The regulations may make provision for or with respect
to either or both of the following:
(a)
modifying any of the 1996 amendments in their application to or in respect of workers employed in or about a mine to which the Coal Mines
Regulation Act 1982 applies,
(b)
exempting any such workers from the operation of any of the 1996 amendments.
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(3) A provision referred to in subclause (2) may, if the regulations so provide, take effect as from the date of assent to the WorkCover Legislation Amendment Act 1996 or a later day.
[Minister’s second reading speech made in— Legislative Council on 3 December 1996 Legislative Assembly on 8 April 1997]
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