COMPENSATION (COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES) AMENDMENT ACT 1978 NO. 68, 1978 COMPENSATION (COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES) AMENDMENT ACT 1978 NO. 68, 1978 - TABLE OF PROVISIONS 1. Short title. 2. Commencement 3. Public Service of Northern Territory COMPENSATION (COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES) AMENDMENT ACT 1978 No. 68 of 1978 - SECT 1 Short title. COMPENSATION (COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES) AMENDMENT ACT 1978 No. 68 of 1978 An Act to amend the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Act 1971 for purposes related to the self-government of the Northern Territory. BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows: Short title, &c. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Amendment Act 1978.*1* (2) The Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Act 1971*2* is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act. COMPENSATION (COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES) AMENDMENT ACT 1978 No. 68 of 1978 - SECT 2 Commencement 2. This Act shall come into operation on 1 July 1978. COMPENSATION (COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES) AMENDMENT ACT 1978 No. 68 of 1978 - SECT 3 Public Service of Northern Territory 3. After section 7 of the Principal Act the following sections are inserted: ''7A. (1) This section applies to a person who, on or after 1 July 1978, is employed by the Northern Territory, whether he is so employed under a law of the Northern Territory or under a contract of service or apprenticeship. ''(2) Subject to this section, this Act has effect on and after 1 July 1978 in relation to a person to whom this section applies as if references in this Act (other than this section and section 7B) to the Commonwealth were references to the Northern Territory. ''(3) Sub-section (2) does not apply to- (a) a reference in this Act to a law of the Commonwealth, a prescribed authority of the Commonwealth, a Commonwealth Police Officer, a Territory forming part of the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth Employees' Compensation Tribunal; (b) a reference to the Commonwealth in sub-section (2) of section 4, sub-section (2) of section 7, sub-section (7) of section 45, sub-section (3) of section 46, paragraph (d) of sub-section (4) of section 52 or Part VII; or (c) the reference to the Public Service of the Commonwealth in paragraph (b) of sub-section (1) of section 123. ''(4) This section does not have effect in relation to- (a) an injury sustained or a disease contracted before 1 July 1978; (b) an aggravation, acceleration or recurrence of a disease suffered before that date; or (c) loss or damage of a kind referred to in section 28 suffered before that date. Northern Territory to pay compensation in respect of certain other persons ''7B. (1) Sub-section (2) applies to- (a) employment of a person that is, in accordance with sub-section (2) of section 7, deemed to be employment of the person by the Commonwealth by reason of his performance of his duties as a member of the Police Force of the Northern Territory or the duties of an office of the Northern Territory; or (b) employment of a person by an authority of the Northern Territory, including employment of a person that is, in accordance with sub-section (3) of section 7, deemed to be employment of the person by such an authority by reason of his performance of the duties of the authority, his duties as a member of the authority or person acting as such a member or his duties as a deputy of such a member. ''(2) Any payments of compensation under this Act that, but for this section, would be payable by the Commonwealth on or after 1 July 1978 to or in relation to a person by reason of employment to which this sub-section applies, not being compensation in respect of- (a) an injury sustained or a disease contracted before 1 July 1978; (b) an aggravation, acceleration or recurrence of a disease suffered before that date; or (c) loss or damage of a kind referred to in section 28 suffered before that date, shall be payable by the Northern Territory and not by the Commonwealth. ''(3) In this section- 'authority of the Northern Territory' means a body corporate to which paragraph (b) of the definition of 'prescribed authority of the Commonwealth' in sub-section (1) of section 5 applies, being a body incorporated by a law of the Northern Territory; 'office of the Northern Territory' means an office that is established by a law of the Northern Territory and is an office to which sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (c) of sub-section (2) of section 7 applies.''. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- COMPENSATION (COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES) AMENDMENT ACT 1978 No. 68 of 1978 - NOTES NOTES 1. Act No. 68, 1978; assented to 22 June 1978. 2. Act No. 48, 1971, as amended. For previous amendments see Act No. 136, 1971; No. 122, 1972; No. 105, 1973; No. 216, 1973 (as amended by No. 20, 1974); No. 92, 1974; and Nos. 157 and 166, 1976.