Workers' Compensation and Injury Management Amendment Regulations 2006 (WA)

4 August 2006 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 2855

WC301*

Workers' Compensation and Injury Management Act 1981

Workers' Compensation and Injury

Management Amendment Regulations 2006

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

I.           Citation

These regulations are the Workers' Compensation and Injury
Management Amendment Regulations 2006.

2.            The regulations amended

The amendment in these regulations is to the Workers'
Compensation and Injury Management Regulations 1982*.

r Reprint 5 as at 3 February 20061

3. Regulation 17AE inserted
After regulation 17AD the following regulation is inserted —

and

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17AE. Amount prescribed for funeral expenses -

clause 17(2)

(1) For the purposes of the Act Schedule 1 clause 17(2),

the amount prescribed for funeral expenses is —

(a)	for the period up to and including 30 June 2007, $7 547; and
(b)

for a financial year commencing on or after the Act, the amount obtained by —

(i) varying the amount applying at the end

of the preceding financial year by the
percentage by which the March CPI
varies from the previous March CPI;

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(ii) rounding the amount to the nearest

whole number of cents (with an amount
that is .5 of a cent being rounded off to
the next highest whole number of

cents).

(2) In this regulation —

"March CPI", for a financial year, means the index

number for the quarter ending on the last 31 March
before the financial year commences, as shown in
the Consumer Price Index Numbers (All Groups
Index) for Perth published by the Commonwealth
Statistician under the Commonwealth Census and

Statistics Act 1905.

By Command of the Governor,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.