New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BISHOPSGATE INSURANCE AUSTRALIA LIMITED ACT 1983 - SECT 2

2 Interpretation

(1) In this Act, except in so far as the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires:
"Company" means Bishopsgate Insurance Australia Limited.
"Contribution Fund" means the Insurers’ Contribution Fund established under section 30H (1) of the Workers’ Compensation Act 1926 .
"employer" has the same meaning as it has in the Workers’ Compensation Act 1926 .
"fund" means the fund established under section 3.
"Government Insurance Office" means the Government Insurance Office of New South Wales.
"licensed insurer" means a person who is at, or who becomes after, 19 August 1983:

(a) an insurer licensed under the Workers’ Compensation Act 1926 , or

(b) a self-insurer within the meaning of that Act,

but does not include the Company.
"policy of insurance issued by the Company" means a policy of insurance or indemnity under section 18 (1) of the Workers’ Compensation Act 1926 issued by the Company and includes a policy of insurance or indemnity under that subsection issued by:

(a) Harvey Trinder (NSW) Proprietary Limited or Bain Dawes Proprietary Limited between 16 July 1957, and 30 June 1968, both dates inclusive,

(b) Bishopsgate Insurance Company Limited of London between 31 July 1971, and 30 June 1977, both dates inclusive,

(c) Neptune Insurance Company Proprietary Limited between 15 June 1948, and 30 June 1978, both dates inclusive, and

(d) any other company prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph between such dates as may be so prescribed.

"regulation" means a regulation made under this Act.
"State Compensation Board" means the State Compensation Board constituted under the Workers’ Compensation Act 1926 .

(2) So far as the legislative power of Parliament permits, the liquidator of the Company shall have and may exercise outside New South Wales the powers, authorities, duties and functions conferred or imposed on the liquidator by this Act, in addition to having and exercising those powers, authorities, duties and functions within New South Wales.