No. 15 of 1971
AN ORDINANCE
To amend the Workmen's Compensation Ordinance 1951-1970.
| hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government | I THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of , Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, |
| (Administration) Act 1910-1970. |
Dated this twenty-fourth day of June, 1971.
PAUL HASLUCK Governor-General.
By His Excellency's Command,
RALPH J. HUNT
Minister of State for the Interior.
WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ORDINANCE 1971
1.—(1.) This Ordinance may be cited as the Workmen's
Compensation Ordinance 1971.*
(2.) The Workmen's Compensation Ordinance 1951-1970f is in
this Ordinance referred to as the Principal Ordinance.
(3.) The Principal Ordinance, as amended by this Ordinance, may
be cited as the Workmen's Compensation Ordinance 1951-1971.
2. This Ordinance shall come into operation on the first day of July,
| No. 8, 1961; No. 10, 1962; No. 6, 1965; No. 44, 1967; N o . 19, 1968; Nos. 7, 13 and 18, 1969; and N o . 26, 1970. |
1971.
3. Section 11 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting
sub-sections (1.) and (2.) and inserting in their stead the following
sub-section:—
" (1.) Where—
(a)
compensation is payable by an employer under this Ordinance to, or in respect of, a workman; or
(b)
but for the fact that a workman is not incapacitated for work or but for the operation of clause (ii) of sub paragraph (b) of paragraph 2 of the First Schedule to this Ordirance, compensation would be so payable,
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1 July 1971.
t Ordinance No. 2, 1951, as amended by No. 4, 1952; No. 12, 1954; No. 1, 1956; Nos. 12, 20 and 21, 1959;
the employer is liable to pay, in respect of the cost of medical treatment obtained in relation to the injury or disease in respect of which com pensation is, or would be, so payable, being treatment that it was reasonable in the circumstances for the workman to obtain, compensa tion of such amount as is appropriate to that medical treatment having regard to the charges customarily made for similar medical treatment in the place where that treatment is obtained.".
4. The Principal Ordinance is amended as set out in the Schedule to this Ordinance.
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» — ( 1 . ) A policy of insurance against liability under the Principal
Ordinance, in force immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance, has effect during the unexpired balance of the currency of the policy as if it applied to liability under the Principal Ordinance as amended by this Ordinance.
(2.) An employer to whom such a policy has been issued is liable to pay to the insurer, in respect of the additional liability which he may incur as a result of the amendments to the Principal Ordinance effected by this Ordinance, additional premium for the period of the unexpired balance of the currency of the policy, being additional premium equal to the difference between the premium for that period at the rate…