Workmen's Compensation (Amendment) Act 1984 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Workmen’s Compensation (Amendment) Ordinance 1984

No. 5 of 1984

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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 21 February 1984.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

TOM UREN

Minister of State for Territories and Local Government

An Ordinance to amend the Workmen’s Compensation (Amendment) Ordinance 1983

Short title

1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Workmen’s Compensation (Amendment) Ordinance 1984.¹

Commencement

2.  This Ordinance shall be deemed to have come into operation on 30 December 1983.

Compensation for personal injuries to workmen

3.  Section 6 of the Workmen’s Compensation (Amendment) Ordinance 1983² is amended—

(a)by omitting from paragraph (a) “in any employment”; and

(b)by omitting from paragraph (a) “the employment” and substituting “his employment by his employer”.

Compensation for certain injuries

4.  Section 9 of the Workmen’s Compensation (Amendment) Ordinance 1983 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:

“(2)  Section 12A of the Principal Ordinance as amended by this Ordinance applies to sub-section 10 (1) of the Principal Ordinance as so amended as if the amendments effected by sub-section (1) of this section had taken effect on 26 October 1983.”.

Maximum compensation

5.  Section 11 of the Workmen’s Compensation (Amendment) Ordinance 1983 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:

“(2)  Section 12A of the Principal Ordinance as amended by this Ordinance applies to sub-section 12 (1) of the Principal Ordinance as so amended as if the amendments effected by sub-section (1) of this section had taken effect on 26 October 1983.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 February 1984.

2. 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; No. 29, 1980; No. 4, 1981; Nos. 103 and 104, 1982; No. 69, 1983.