Workmen's Compensation Regulations 1913 (Cth)

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STATUTORY RULES.

1913. No. 336.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION ACT 1912.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Commonwealth Workmen’s Compensation Act 1912 to come into operation forthwith. Such Regulations shall supersede the Provisional Regulations (Statutory Rules 1913, No. 39), under the said Act made on the fifth day of February, One thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

Dated this 19th day of December, One thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

DENMAN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN FORREST, Treasurer.

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Workmen’s Compensation Regulations.

Short Title.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the “Workmen’s Compensation Regulations 1913.”

Interpretation.

2. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears, “the Act” means the Commonwealth Workmen’s Compensation Act 1912.

Fee to Medical Referee.

3. The fee payable to a medical referee shall be as follows:—

For a first examination—£2.

For a subsequent examination—£1

Prescribed Authority.

4. Wherever in the First Schedule or the Second Schedule to the Act a prescribed authority is referred to, that authority shall be the Secretary to the Treasury.

Moneys Received by Prescribed Authority.

5. All moneys received by a prescribed authority in pursuance of paragraph (5) or paragraph (6) of the First Schedule to the Act shall be dealt with as the Secretary to the Treasury directs.

Appeal to High Court or SupremeCourt from Decision of County Court.

6. (1.) An appeal under paragraph (2.) of the Second Schedule to the Act may be instituted by notice of appeal in accordance with this Regulation.

C.17309.—Price 3d.

 

(2.) The party appealing shall, within twenty-one days after the decision or order appealed against is made, serve the notice of appeal on the opposite party, and shall file a copy of the notice of appeal in the County Court and in the Registry of the High Court in the State or the Supreme Court of the State, as the case requires.

(3.) The notice of appeal must state the grounds of appeal, and must set out the Court to which the appeal is made.

(4.) The Registrar or other proper officer of the County Court in which the notice of appeal isfiled shall, forthwith after receiving it, send to the Registrar or other proper officer of the Court to which the appeal is made all such proceedings in the County Court as are necessary to the hearing of the appeal.

Applicationof Rules of High Court or Supreme Court.

7. The Rules of the High Court or the Rules of the Supreme Court, as the case requires, shall, subject to these Regulations, apply to appeals under paragraph (2.) of the Second Schedule to the Act so far as the Rules are applicable

Particulars of Accidents and Compensation.

8. (1.) The permanent head or chief officer of each Department shall furnish to the Secretary to the Treasury, not later than the 31st day of July and the 31st day of January in each year, a return setting forth the particulars required by paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 10 of the Act for the six months ending on the 30th day of June and the 31st day of December respectively in each year.

(2.) In addition to the returns required by Sub-regulation (1.) of this Regulation, the permanent head or chief officer of each Department shall furnish to the Secretary to the Treasury, not later than the 31st day of July and the 31st day of January in each year, a separate return in respect of each workman to whom the Act applies injured during the six months ending on the 30th day of June and the 31st day of December respectively in each year, setting forth the following particulars:—

Name of Department.

Name of person injured.

Date of accident.

Place of accident.

Nature of employment.

Nature of injury.

Whether injury resulted in death.

Where injury does not result in death period of incapacitation.

Amount of compensation paid.

Name and address of person to whom paid.

Where injury results in death, relationship of person to whom compensation paid to person injured.

 

Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.

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