Workers Compensation (Bush Fire, Emergency and Rescue Services) Act 1987 Regulation relating to fundraising for bush fire brigades by bush fire fighters (1994-118) [GG No 53 of 31.3.1994] (NSW)

1994—No. 118

WORKERS COMPENSATION (BUSH FIRE, EMERGENCY

AND RESCUE SERVICES) ACT 1987—REGULATION

(Relating to fundraising for bush fire brigades by bush fire fighters)

NEW SOUTH WALES

[Published in Gazette No. 53 of 3 March 1994]

HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of the Workers Compensation (Bush Fire, Emergency and Rescue Services) Act 1987, has been pleased to make the Regulation set forth hereunder.

KERRY CHIKAROVSKI, M.P.,

Minister for Industrial Relations and Employment,

and Minister for the Status of Women.

The Workers Compensation (Bush Fire, Emergency and Rescue

Services) Regulation 1987 is amended:

(a) byinserting before thedefinitionof“the Act” inclause 3 the following definition:

“fire control officer” has the same meaning as in the Bush

Fires Act 1949;

(b) by inserting after clause 7 the following Part:

PART 3—BUSH FIRE FIGHTERS

Associated operation or work—fund raising activities

8. For the purposes of section 8 (1) (c) of the Act, fundraising for a bush fire brigade by an official fire fighter that is authorised by a fire control officer is an associated operation or work if that fundraising is carried out voluntarily and without remuneration or reward.

1994—No. 118

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The object of this Regulation is to provide that fundraising by an official fire fighter for a bush fire brigade that is authorised by a fire control officer is an associated operation or work for the purposes of Part 2 of the Workers Compensation (Bush Fire, Emergency and Rescue Services) Act 1987. Part 2 deals with compensation for bush fire fighters for personal injury received by an official fire fighter (or a person of a prescribed class) arising out of or in the course of the carrying out of an associated operation or work.