Workers Compensation Amendment (Small Employers Wages Returns) Regulation 2013 (NSW)

2013 No 192

New South Wales

Workers Compensation Amendment

(Small Employers Wages Returns)

Regulation 2013

under the

Workers Compensation Act 1987

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

GREG PEARCE, MLC

Minister for Finance and Services

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to provide that certain small employers:

(a)	are no longer required to supply estimates of wages returns when renewing a workers compensation insurance policy, and
(b)	are to supply the workers compensation insurer with wages returns within 4 months after the end of each relevant period of insurance (rather than within 2 months, as currently applies to all employers).

This Regulation is made under the Workers Compensation Act 1987, including sections 173 and 280 (the general regulation-making power).

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Clause 1	Regulation 2013

Workers Compensation Amendment (Small Employers

Wages Returns) Regulation 2013

under the

Workers Compensation Act 1987

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Workers Compensation Amendment (Small
Employers Wages Returns) Regulation 2013.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences at 4 pm on 30 June 2013 and is required to be published on the NSW legislation website.

Workers Compensation Amendment (Small Employers Wages Returns)	2013 No 192
Regulation 2013
Amendment of Workers Compensation Regulation 2010	Schedule 1
Schedule 1	Amendment of Workers Compensation Regulation 2010

[1]      Clause 147 Employer to supply insurer with return relating to wages— standard policies

Insert after clause 147 (1):

(1A) Subclause (1) (b) does not apply to a small employer.

[2]      Clause 147 (2)

Insert “(other than a small employer)” after “An employer”.

[3]      Clause 147 (3)–(5)

Omit clause 147 (3). Insert instead:

(3)	A small employer must, not later than 4 months after the end of the relevant period of insurance relating to a policy, supply the insurer who issued or renewed the policy with a notice in the approved form, duly completed, which contains a full and correct declaration by the employer of the wages that were actually paid by the employer during that period of insurance to workers employed by the employer.
(4)	In this clause, small employer, in relation to a policy of insurance, has the same meaning as in the relevant insurance premiums order that applies to that policy.
(5)	This clause does not apply in relation to a retro-paid loss premium policy.