Workers Compensation Legislation (Amendment) Act 1991 Proclamation re commencement (1992-271) [GG No 66 of 5.6.1992] (NSW)

1992—No. 271

WORKERS COMPENSATION LEGISLATION (AMENDMENT)

ACT 1991 NO. 100—PROCLAMATION

NEW SOUTH WALES

[Published in Gazette No. 66 of 5 June 1992]

(L.S.) P. R. SINCLAIR, Governor.

I, Rear Admiral PETER ROSS SINCLAIR, Governor of the State of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of section 2 (1) of the Workers Compensation Legislation (Amendment) Act 1991, do, by this my Proclamation, appoint 1 July 1992 as the day on which the uncommenced provisions of that Act commence.

Signed and Sealed at Sydney, this 3rd day of June, 1992.

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN FAHEY

Minister for Industrial Relations and

Minister for Further Education,

Training and Employment.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The object of this Proclamation is to commence the uncommenced provisions of the Workers Compensation Legislation (Amendment) Act 1991 (Schedules 3 (1), 4 (1), 5, 6 and 7, and section 5 in its application to those provisions). Those provisions transfer the administration of Acts relating to insolvent insurers from the GIO to the WorkCover Authority and provide for the payment of liabilities from the Insurers’ Guarantee Fund instead of the Insurers’ Contribution Fund.