EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Issued by the authority of the
Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations
Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988
Revocation of Declaration and Specification
The Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 (SRC Act) establishes the Commonwealth workers’ compensation and rehabilitation scheme.
On 28 November 1988 the then Minister for Social Security issued a comprehensive instrument (published in Gazette S365 on 30 November 1988) declaring and specifying a range of matters under the SRC Act (then named the Commonwealth Employees’ Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988). The instrument was then itself amended on 7 August 1989 by Notice No 1 of 1989 (published in Gazette No GN 32 on 23 August 1989).
Following the commencement of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003 (LI Act), there is a requirement for all pre 2000 legislative instruments to be backcaptured or remade and placed on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI) by 31 December 2007, or they will cease to have effect.
There is now a need to amend one of the items in the legislative instrument of 28 November 1988, and, rather than amend the instrument which would require it to be lodged on FRLI within 28 days (section 29, LI Act), the decision has been made to revoke the notices with effect from 1 July 2007.
A number of other new instruments will be made that replace the contents of the original instrument, including updated references.
Consultation was not undertaken in relation to this instrument as new instruments will be made to continue operation of the ongoing items.
An assessment was made under the new guidelines issued by the Office of Best Practice Regulation, which indicated that a Regulation Impact Statement was not required for this declaration.
This Notice is a legislative instrument for the purposes of the LI Act and takes effect from 1 July 2007.