Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation (Disclosure of Information) Regulations 1999 (SA)

South Australia

Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation (Disclosure of Information) Regulations 1999

under the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1986

Contents

1            Short title

2            Commencement

3            Revocation

4            Interpretation

5            Disclosure of information

Legislative history

1—Short title

These regulations may be cited as the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation (Disclosure of Information) Regulations 1999.

2—Commencement

These regulations will come into operation on the day immediately following the day on which the time for disallowance of these regulations has passed (see section 112(2a) of the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1986).

3—Revocation

The Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation (Disclosure of Information) Regulations 1987 (see Gazette 24.9.1987 p1002), as varied, are revoked.

4—Interpretation

In these regulations—

Act means the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1986.

5—Disclosure of information

(1)Pursuant to section 112(2)(h) of the Act, the following information may (to such extent as may be determined by the Corporation in its absolute discretion) be disclosed to the South Australian Department of Primary Industries and Resources:

(a)in relation to any employer registered under the Act who is engaged in the mining or petroleum industries—

(i)the name, residential or postal address, business address, and telephone number, of the employer;

(ii)any registration code or other identifying number assigned to the employer by the Corporation;

(iii)the class or classes of industry in which the employer is or has been engaged;

(iv)the number of workers employed or formerly employed by the employer in each class of industry;

(v)the total number of disabilities suffered by workers employed by the employer during any particular period;

(b)in relation to any worker who has suffered a compensable disability while employed in the mining or petroleum industries—

(i)the name of the employer from whose employment the disability arose;

(ii)the day on which the disability occurred;

(iii)the place at which the disability occurred;

(iv)the nature of the disability;

(v)the apparent cause of the disability;

(vi)details of any work being undertaken by the worker at the time of the occurrence of the disability;

(vii)any information relating to an aggravation, acceleration, exacerbation, deterioration or recurrence of the disability;

(viii)the period of any incapacity (or the estimated period of incapacity) on account of the disability;

(ix)details of any rehabilitation provided to the worker.

(2)Pursuant to section 112(2)(h) of the Act, the following information may (to such extent as may be determined by the Corporation in its absolute discretion) be disclosed to the South Australian Department of Industry and Trade in relation to any employer registered under the Act:

(a)the name, residential or postal address, business address, and telephone number, of the employer;

(b)any registration code or other identifying number assigned to the employer by the Corporation;

(c)the class or classes of industry in which the employer is or has been engaged;

(d)the number of workers employed or formerly employed by the employer in each class of industry.

Legislative history

Notes

•For further information relating to the Act and subordinate legislation made under the Act see the Index of South Australian Statutes or of regulations

The Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation (Disclosure of Information) Regulations 1999 were revoked by Sch 5 cl 2 of the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Regulations 2010 on 1.11.2010.

Principal regulations

Year	No	Reference	Commencement
1999	240	Gazette 25.11.1999 p2762	26.5.2000: r 2