Workmen’s Compensation (Amendment) Act 1979 (ACT)

N o . 15 of 1979

An Ordinance to amend the Workmen's Compensation Ordinance 1951, and for other purposes

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 this twenty-eighth day of June 1979.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

R. ELLICOTT

Minister of State for the Capital Territory

W O R K M E N ' S COMPENSATION (AMENDMENT)

O R D I N A N C E 1979

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

(Amendment) Ordinance 1979.'

2. In this Ordinance, "Principal Ordinance" means the Workmen's

Compensation Ordinance 1951. 2

3. Section 6 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from

by an Ordinance.

sub-section (9) " 1 July 1979" and substituting "such date as is fixed by

the Minister by notice published in the Gazette".

4. Section 5 of the Workmen's Compensation (Amendment)

Ordinance (No. 2) 1978 is repealed.

5. On and after the date fixed under sub-section 6 ( 9 ) of the Principal Ordinance as amended by this Ordinance, the Interpretation

Ordinance 1967 shall have effect in relation to the provisions of the Prin­ cipal Ordinance, as amended by this Ordinance, that ceased to have effect on that date as if those provisions had been repealed on that date

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 June 1979.

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; and Nos. 15, 46 and 47, 1978.