EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules 1988 No 278
Issued by the authority of the Minister of State for Social Security
Subject- Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Act 1971
Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Regulations (Amendment)
The purpose of the proposed Regulations is to give effect to the proposal of the Government to extend the application of the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Act 1971 to employees of Coselco Mimotopes Proprietary Limited and Coselco Insurance Proprietary Limited, wholly owned subsidiaries of the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Commission, by virtue of a regulation made pursuant to subsection 7(5) of the Act.
The proposed Regulations amend Regulation 11 of the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Regulations by adding to the class of persons in the first column of the table in subregulation 11(1) the words “Persons employed by Coselco Mimotopes Proprietary Limited” and “Persons employed by Coselco Insurance Proprietary Limited”, and to the class of acts in the second column of that table the words “Acts performed in the course of that employment” in relation to both classes of persons.
By Regulation 1 of the proposed Regulations, these amendments would be taken to have commenced on 1 June 1988, the date on which the companies were established. This will not adversely affect the rights of any person.
Accordingly, persons who are employed by Coselco Mimotopes Proprietary Limited and Coselco Finance Proprietary Limited will, from I June 1988, be taken to be persons to whom and in relation to whom the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Act 1971 has applied.