SAFETY, REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 1988 - SECT 127 Settlements and determinations under previous Acts

SAFETY, REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 1988 - SECT 127

  (1)   Any settlement, whether by agreement, arbitration or judicial decision, under the 1912 Act and in force immediately before the commencing day, being a settlement of the liability of the Commonwealth, or of a Commonwealth authority, to pay compensation or make any other payment under that Act in respect of an injury shall, on and after that day, be taken to be a determination made by the relevant authority under this Act in respect of the corresponding liability of the relevant authority to pay compensation or make a similar payment under this Act in respect of that injury, but Part   VI does not apply in relation to that settlement.

  (2)   Any determination made or action taken by the Commissioner for Employees' Compensation under the 1930 Act or the 1971 Act and having effect immediately before the commencing day, being a determination or action in respect of the liability of the Commonwealth to pay compensation or make any other payment to a person under the 1930 Act or the 1971 Act, as the case may be, shall be taken to be a determination made by the relevant authority under this Act in respect of the corresponding liability of that relevant authority to pay compensation or make a similar payment under this Act to that person.

  (3)   Where a determination or action referred to in subsection   (2) is, or has been, varied by a court or a tribunal, subsection   (2) has effect in relation to that determination or action as so varied.