Workmen’s Compensation (Amendment) Act 1987 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Workmen’s Compensation (Amendment) Ordinance 1987

No. 10 of 1987

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 26 March 1987.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. SCHOLES

Minister of State for Territories

An Ordinance to amend the Workmen’s Compensation Ordinance 1951

Short title

1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Workmen’s Compensation (Amendment) Ordinance 1987.1

Principal Ordinance

2.  In this Ordinance, “Principal Ordinance” means the Workmen’s Compensation Ordinance 1951.2

Compensation for facial disfigurement

3.  Section 10A of the Principal Ordinance is amended—

(a)by omitting from sub-section (1) “assessed as appropriate by a medical referee” and substituting “settled by arbitration in accordance with the Fourth Schedule as being appropriate compensation”;

(b)by omitting sub-sections (2) to (6) (inclusive);

(c)by adding at the end of paragraph (7) (a) “and”;

(d)by omitting from paragraph (7) (b) “and”; and

(e)by omitting paragraph (7) (c).

Compensation for loss of sense of smell or sense of taste

4.  Section 10B of the Principal Ordinance is amended—

(a)by omitting from sub-section (1) “assessed as appropriate by a medical referee” and substituting “settled by arbitration in accordance with the Fourth Schedule as being appropriate compensation”;

(b)by omitting sub-sections (2) to (6) (inclusive); and

(c)by omitting from sub-section (7) the definition of “medical referee”.

Compensation for injuries relating to sexual organs and breasts

5.  Section 10C of the Principal Ordinance is amended—

(a)by omitting from sub-section (1) “assessed as appropriate by a medical referee” and substituting “settled by arbitration in accordance with the Fourth Schedule as being appropriate compensation”; and

(b)by omitting sub-sections (2) to (6) (inclusive).

First Schedule

6.  The First Schedule to the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from the second sub-paragraph of paragraph 11 “, on application being made to the Court by either of the parties may, on payment by the applicant” and substituting “may, on an application being made by either of the parties with the consent of the other and on payment”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 2 April 1987.

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; Nos. 5 and 76, 1984; Nos. 9 and 67, 1985.