Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 2004 (WA)

29 October 2001 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 4939

WORKCOVER

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Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 1981

Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation

Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 2004

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.           Citation

These regulations may be cited as the Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 2004.

2.            The regulations amended

The amendments in these regulations are to the Workers'
Compensation and Rehabilitation Regulations 1982*.

[* Reprint 4 as at 17 April 2003.

For amendments to 17 September 2004 see Western p. 450, and Gazette 8 April 2004.]

3.            Regulation 17AA replaced

Regulation 17AA is repealed and the following regulation is inserted instead -

and

17AA. Prescribed rate for vehicle running expenses (Sch. 1

cI. 19 of the Act)

(1) For the purposes of Schedule 1 clause 19(1) of the Act,
the prescribed rate for vehicle running expenses
(irrespective of engine capacity) is -

(a)	for the period up to and including 30 June 2005, 34 cents per kilometre; and
(b)

for a financial year commencing on or after 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 CPL;

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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 Census and Statistics

Act 1905 of the Commonwealth.

By Command of the Governor,

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