Workmen's Compensation (Amendment) Act 1980 (ACT)

N o . 29 of 1980

An Ordinance to amend the Workmen's Compensation Ordinance 1951

I, T H E G O V E R N O R - G E N E R A L of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following

Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910.

Dated this third day of September 1980.

Z E L M A N C O W E N

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

R. ELLICOTT

Minister of State for the Capital Territory

W O R K M E N ' S C O M P E N S A T I O N ( A M E N D M E N T ) O R D I N A N C E

1980

Short title

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Workmen's Compensation

(Amendment) Ordinance 1980.1

Compulsory insurance

2. Section 18 of the Workmen's Compensation Ordinance 1951 2 is

times maintain in force such a policy with an approved insurer.".

amended by inserting after sub-section (3) the following sub-section:

" ( 3 A ) Where, before or after the commencement of the Workmen's

Compensation (Amendment) Ordinance 1980—

(a)	an employer obtains from an approved insurer a policy of insurance or indemnity in accordance with sub-section (1); and
(b)	at any time when that policy is in force an order is made by a Court for the winding up of the insurer under a law of the Territory or of a State or another Territory,

the employer shall, within 30 days after the date of the order, or the commencement of the Workmen's Compensation (Amendment) Ordinance 1980, whichever is the later, obtain from another approved insurer a policy of insurance or indemnity in accordance with sub-section (1) and shall at all

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 11 September 1980.

2.     Ordinance No . 2,1951 as amended by No. 4 ,1952; No. 12,1954; No. 1,1956; Nos. 12,20 and 21,1959; No. 8, 1961; No. 10,1962; No. 6 ,1965; No. 44,1967; No. 19,1968; Nos. 7, 13 and 18, 1969; No. 26 ,1970; No. 15,1971; Nos. 35 and 38,1972; No. 11,1973; No. 34, 1974; No. 11,1975; Nos. 15,46 and 47,1978; No. 15,1979.