New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BISHOPSGATE INSURANCE AUSTRALIA LIMITED ACT 1983 - SECT 9

9 Operation of certain provisions of Act No 15, 1926

(1) Section 18BA of the Workers’ Compensation Act 1926 applies in relation to an employer insured under a policy of insurance issued by the Company as if the Government Insurance Office were the insurer liable to indemnify the employer under the policy.

(2) Section 30K of the Workers’ Compensation Act 1926 applies to and in respect of a payment made by the Government Insurance Office (as agent and attorney of an employer) pursuant to a policy of insurance issued by the Company in the same way as it would have applied to and in respect of the payment had it been made by the Government Insurance Office as the insurer under the policy.

(3) Where the Government Insurance Office receives as agent and attorney of an employer a payment from the Contribution Fund in accordance with section 30K of the Workers’ Compensation Act 1926 , section 30L of that Act applies to and in respect of that payment as if the Government Insurance Office were an insurer which had received that payment in respect of compensation paid by it.

(4) Sections 53B and 53E of the Worker’s Compensation Act 1926 apply in relation to a claim being dealt with by the Government Insurance Office as agent and attorney of an employer insured under a policy of insurance issued by the Company as if a reference in those sections to an insurer included a reference to the Government Insurance Office.

(5) The Governor may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, for or with respect to the application, with such modifications as may be provided by the regulations, of any of the provisions of the Workers’ Compensation Act 1926 (including the provisions referred to in subsections (1)-(4)) in relation to the dealing with or finalising of claims, or the satisfying of judgments or awards, by the Government Insurance Office as agent and attorney of an employer insured under a policy of insurance issued by the Company.