An Act to amend the Workers Compensation Act 1987, the Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 and certain other Acts to make further provision with respect to commencement of proceedings, dust diseases and injury notification; and for other purposes.

1   Name of Act

This Act is the Workers Compensation Legislation Amendment Act 2003.

2   Commencement

(1)  This Act commences on a day or days to be appointed by proclamation.

(2)  A proclamation under this section may appoint a particular time on a day as the time for commencement on that day.

3   Amendments

The Acts and Regulation specified in the Schedules to this Act are amended as set out in those Schedules.

Schedules 1, 2 (Repealed)

Schedule 3 Amendment of Occupational Health and Safety Act 2000 No 40

(Section 3)

[1]   (Repealed)

[2]   Section 65 Protection from incrimination

Omit “on that occasion” from section 65 (2) (b).

Insert instead “at an appropriate time”.

[3]   Section 65 (2A)

Insert after section 65 (2):

  

(2A) Appropriate time for giving warning about incrimination
An appropriate time for warning a person as referred to in subsection (2) (b) is any of the following times:

(a)  the time when the requirement to make the statement or to give or furnish the answer or information is made,

(b)  in the case of evidence required to be given when appearing before an inspector, any time after the start of the appearance before the inspector,

(c)  at or about the time immediately before the person makes the statement or gives or furnishes the answer or information.

[4]–[17]   (Repealed)

Schedules 4–7 (Repealed)

Historical notes

The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes:

Table of amending instruments

Workers Compensation Legislation Amendment Act 2003 No 29. Second reading speech made: Legislative Council, 25.6.2003; Legislative Assembly, 2.7.2003. Assented to 8.7.2003. Date of commencement, Schs 2 [1] and 3 [2]–[17] excepted, 1.8.2003, sec 2 and GG No 121 of 1.8.2003, p 7530; date of commencement of Schs 2 [1] and 3 [4]–[17], 1.9.2003, sec 2 and GG No 128 of 22.8.2003, p 8014; date of commencement of Sch 3 [2] and [3], 1.2.2006, sec 2 and GG No 7 of 13.1.2006, p 76. This Act has been amended as follows:

Table of amendments