Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 Workers Compensation (General) Amendment (Latest Index Number and Costs) Regulation 2002 (2002-176) [GG No 65 of 22.3.2002, p 1722] (NSW)

2002 No 176

Workers Compensation (General) New South Wales

Amendment (Latest Index Number and

Costs) Regulation 2002

under the

Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation
Act 1998

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998.

JOHN DELLA BOSCA, M.L.C.,

Special Minister of State

Explanatory note
The objects of this Regulation are:

(a)	to update an index number that is used for the purposes of the indexation of benefits under the Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998, and
(b)	to remedy an omission in the Work Injury Costs Table.

This Regulation is made under the Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998, including Part 8 of Chapter 7, and section 248 (the general regulation-making power) and section 79 of the 1987 Act (the definition of latest index number).

Published in Gazette No 65 of 22 March 2002, page 1722	Page 1
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Clause 1	Workers Compensation (General) Amendment (Latest Index Number and Costs) Regulation 2002

Workers Compensation (General) Amendment
(Latest Index Number and Costs) Regulation 2002

1     Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Workers Compensation (General) Amendment
(Latest Index Number and Costs) Regulation 2002.

2 Amendment of Workers Compensation (General) Regulation 1995

The Workers Compensation (General) Regulation 1995 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

Schedule 1 Amendments (Clause 2)

[1]     Clause 13 Sec 79: definition of “latest index number”

Insert at the end of the Table to clause 13:

1 April 2002 167.6

[2]     Schedule 7 Maximum costs for legal services—work injury damages matters

Insert “plus 10% of the settlement amount over $50,000” at the end of paragraph (f) in Column 2 of the Work Injury Costs Table A to clause 1.

BY AUTHORITY

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