An Act to amend the Workers Compensation Act 1987 and the Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 to make further provision with respect to common law damages, lump sum compensation, attendant care services, savings and transitional matters, private insurance arrangements and miscellaneous matters; and for other purposes.
1 Name of Act
This Act is the Workers Compensation Legislation Further Amendment Act 2001.
2 Commencement
(1) This Act commences on a day or days to be proclaimed, except as provided by this section.(2) The following provisions of this Act (and section 3 in its application to those provisions) are taken to have commenced at 9.00 am on the day on which the Bill for this Act was introduced into Parliament:(a) Schedule 1.1 (Amendments to the Workers Compensation Act 1987 relating to common law damages),(b) Schedule 4 [14] to the extent that it inserts clauses 9–11 of Part 18C of Schedule 6 to the Workers Compensation Act 1987.
3 Amendments
(1) Each Act specified in the Schedules to this Act is amended as set out in those Schedules.(2) The amendments made by this Act to the Workers Compensation Act 1987 and the Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 are amendments to those Acts as amended by the Workers Compensation Legislation Amendment Act 2001 whether or not the amendments made by the Workers Compensation Legislation Amendment Act 2001 have commenced as at the date of assent to this Act.
Schedule 1 Amendments relating to common law damages
(Section 3)
1.1
(Repealed)[1]–[7] (Repealed)
[8] Section 322 Assessment of impairment
Insert “, as in force when the injury concerned was received” after “purpose” in section 322 (1).
[9]–[21] (Repealed)
1.3
(Repealed)sch 1: Am 2005 No 64, Sch 3.
schs 2–10: Rep 2005 No 64, Sch 3.
Schedules 2–10 (Repealed)