Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

WORKERS' COMPENSATION (AMENDMENT) (NO 27 OF 1997)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

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   PART I--PRELIMINARY SHORT TITLE

   1.      This Act may be cited as the Workers' Compensation (Amendment) Act 1997.  
   3.      In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Workers' Compensation Act 1951.1  

   PART II--AMENDMENTS TO THEWORKERS' COMPENSATION ACT 1951

   4.      Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   5.      After section 7 of the Principal Act, the following sections are inserted:  
   6.      Section 23 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted:  

   PART III--TRANSITIONAL INTERPRETATION

   8.      In this Part—“commencement day” means the day fixed by the Minister under subsection 2 (2).  
   9.      Where the death or incapacity of a worker, or a loss or condition suffered by the worker, results from an injury received, or deemed to have been received by virtue of section 9 of the Principal Act, before the commencement day, the Principal Act as in force immediately before the commencement day continues to apply in relation to the injury.  
   10.     On and after the commencement day, an insurance policy in the form set out in Schedule 3 to the Principal Act, being a policy in force immediately before that day, is to have effect as if it were in the form set out in that Schedule as amended in accordance with Schedule 2 to this Act.  
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