Workers' Compensation and Assistance Amendment Act 1983 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

WORKERS' COMPENSATION

AND ASSISTANCE.

No. 16 of 1983.

AN ACT to amend the Workers' Compensation and

Assistance Act 1981.

[Assented to 7 November 1983.]

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:—

Short title

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

Compensation and Assistance Amendment Act 1983.

Act No. 86

(2) In this Act the Workers' Compensation and of 1981.

Assistance Act 1981 is referred to as the principal

Act.

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(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Workers' Compensation and Assistance Act 1981-1983.

Section 140A.

After section 140 of the principal Act, the following section is inserted-

inserted. 2.

Supplement-

ary Board. 140A. In this division "Board" includes a

Supplementary Board. ".

Appeals

from	3.	(1) A party to any proceedings before a
determina-

tions or

Supplementary Board who is dissatisfied with a fmal

orders of

Supple-

determination or order of the Supplementary Board

mentary

Board made

made before the coming into operation of this Act

before this

Act.

may appeal from the determination or order to the

Full Court of the Supreme Court.

A party to any proceedings before a Supple- mentary Board who is dissatisfied with a determina- tion or order of the Supplementary Board made before the coming into operation of this Act which is not a final determination or order may by leave of the Supreme Court or a Judge of the Supreme Court appeal to the Full Court of the Supreme Court.

(2)

An appeal from a determination or order of a Supplementary Board under subsection (1) of this section or an application for leave to appeal under subsection (2) of this section shall be

(3)

(a)	instituted or made within 21 days from the coming into operation of this Act or within such extended time as may be fixed by the Full Court, a Judge or Master of the Supreme Court; and
(b)	subject to paragraph (a) of this subsection, made, heard and determined as is provided in section 137 of the principal Act.

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(4) Where, before the coming into operation of this Act, an appeal has been instituted, or an application for leave to appeal made, by a party to any proceedings before a Supplementary Board who may appeal to the Full Court under this section, such appeal shall be deemed to have been instituted, and such application for leave to appeal shall be deemed to have been made, on the day this Act comes into operation.