Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY AND REPATRIATION LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1984 No. 78, 1984 - SECT 79

79. (1) Section 99 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end
thereof the following sub-section:

''(11) Where an employee, or a dependant of an employee, establishes, to the
satisfaction of the Commissioner, that the whole or part of the damages
referred to in sub-section (1) recovered by the employee or by, or on behalf
of, the dependant, as the case may be, did not relate to an injury, a loss, or
damage, in respect of which compensation is payable under this Act, this
section has effect, in relation to that employee or that dependant, as the
case may be, as if the amount of the damages recovered by that employee or
that dependant was an amount equal to so much (if any) of the amount of the
damages as did relate to an injury, a loss, or damage, in respect of which
compensation is payable under this Act to that employee or that dependant, as
the case may be.''.

(2) The amendment made by sub-section (1) applies only in relation to an
injury sustained by a person after that sub-section comes into operation.