31   Emergency and Rescue Workers Compensation Fund

(cf former s 17P)

(1)  There shall be established in the Special Deposits Account in the Treasury an account to be called the “Emergency and Rescue Workers Compensation Fund”, which shall be kept jointly in an account with the Bush Fire Fighters Compensation Fund constituted under Part 2.

(2)  There shall be paid into the Emergency and Rescue Workers Compensation Fund such amounts as are appropriated by Parliament for the purposes of the Fund.

(3)  There shall be paid from the Emergency and Rescue Workers Compensation Fund:

(a)  compensation payable under this Part,

(a1)  to the Minister administering the District Court Act 1973, such of the costs of operation of the District Court relating to determinations under section 30 (4), being costs incurred after 30 June 2005, as the Minister administering the District Court Act 1973 and the Minister administering this Act agree are to be paid from the Fund,

(b)  the costs of administration of this Part, and

(c)  all expenses incurred by the Authority in the exercise of its functions under this Part.

(4)  If at the time compensation becomes payable under this Part there is insufficient money in the Emergency and Rescue Workers Compensation Fund to meet the claim, the balance required to meet the claim shall be transferred from the Consolidated Fund (which is appropriated accordingly).