STATUTORY RULES.
1913. No. 39.
PROVISIONAL
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 certify that, on account of urgency, the following
Regulations under the Commonwealth Workmen’s Compensation Act 1912 should come into immediate
operation, and make the Regulations to come into operation forthwith as
Provisional Regulations.
Dated this fifth day of February, One thousand nine hundred and
thirteen.
DENMAN,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s
Command,
ANDREW FISHER, Treasurer.
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
Supreme Court 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.1632.—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 is filed 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.
Application of 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.
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Name of person injured.
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Date of accident.
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Place of accident.
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Nature of employment.
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Nature of injury.
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Whether injury resulted
in death.
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Where injury does not
result in death period of incapacitation.
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Amount of compensation
paid.
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Name and address of
person to whom paid.
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Where injury results in death, relationship of person to whom
compensation paid to person injured.
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