SPORTING INJURIES INSURANCE ACT 1978

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SPORTING INJURIES INSURANCE ACT 1978 - NOTES

- As at 6 July 2009 - Act 141 of 1978

Reprint history:

Reprint No 1   30 June 1983
Reprint No 2   15 July 1986
Reprint No 3   4 October 1988
Reprint No 4   16 October 1991
Reprint No 5   22 September 1998
Reprint No 6   9 November 2004

Historical notes

The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes:

Am	amended	LW	legislation website	Sch	Schedule
Cl	clause	No	number	Schs	Schedules
Cll	clauses	p	page	Sec	section
Div	Division	pp	pages	Secs	sections
Divs	Divisions	Reg	Regulation	Subdiv	Subdivision
GG	Government Gazette	Regs	Regulations	Subdivs	Subdivisions
Ins	inserted	Rep	repealed	Subst	substituted

Table of amending instruments

Sporting Injuries Insurance Act 1978 No 141. Assented to 22.12.1978. Date of commencement, secs 1 and 2, Parts 2 and 6 (other than sec 36) and Sch 2 excepted, 16.2.1979, sec 2 and GG No 27 of 16.2.1979, p 707. This Act has been amended as follows:

1981	No 116	Sporting Injuries Insurance (Amendment) Act 1981. Assented to 18.12.1981. Date of commencement of Sch 2, 8.4.1982, sec 2 (3) and GG No 50 of 8.4.1982, p 1553; date of commencement of Sch 3, 1.6.1983, sec 2 (4) and GG No 78 of 1.6.1983, p 2465; date of commencement of Sch 4, 16.2.1979, sec 2 (5).
1983	No 71	Sporting Injuries Insurance (Amendment) Act 1983. Assented to 4.5.1983. Date of commencement of Sch 1, 1.6.1983, sec 2 (2) and GG No 78 of 1.6.1983, p 2465.
	No 153	Miscellaneous Acts (Public Finance and Audit) Repeal and Amendment Act 1983. Assented to 29.12.1983. Date of commencement of Sch 1, 6.1.1984, sec 2 (2) and GG No 4 of 6.1.1984, p 19.
1984	No 65	Sporting Injuries Insurance (Amendment) Act 1984. Assented to 19.6.1984. Date of commencement of Schs 1 and 2 (3), 5.10.1984, sec 2 (3) and GG No 142 of 5.10.1984, p 4914; date of commencement of Sch 2 (2), 3.12.1984, sec 2 (4) (a) and GG No 167 of 30.11.1984, p 5791.
	No 92	Sporting Injuries Insurance (Workers’ Compensation) Amendment Act 1984. Assented to 28.6.1984. Date of commencement of Schs 1 and 2, 3.12.1984, sec 2 (2) and GG No 167 of 30.11.1984, p 5791.
1985	No 231	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1985. Assented to 18.12.1985.
1986	No 16	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1986. Assented to 1.5.1986.
1987	No 48	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 1) 1987. Assented to 28.5.1987. Date of commencement of Sch 32, except as provided by sec 2 (13), 1.9.1987, sec 2 (12) and GG No 136 of 28.8.1987, p 4809.
	No 79	Miscellaneous Acts (Workers Compensation) Amendment Act 1987. Assented to 10.6.1987. Date of commencement of Sch 1, 30.6.1987, sec 2 (2) and GG No 102 of 17.6.1987, p 2944.
1988	No 132	Workers Compensation (Amendment) Act 1988. Assented to 30.12.1988. Date of commencement of the provisions of Sch 2 relating to the Sporting Injuries Insurance Act 1978, 1.7.1989, sec 2 (1) and GG No 81 of 30.6.1989, p 3822.
1989	No 121	WorkCover Legislation (Amendment) Act 1989. Assented to 24.8.1989. Date of commencement, 1.1.1990, sec 2 and GG No 124 of 22.12.1989, p 11040.
1990	No 108	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1990. Assented to 13.12.1990. Date of commencement of the provisions of Sch 1 relating to the Sporting Injuries Insurance Act 1978, assent, sec 2.
1991	No 23	Sporting Injuries Insurance (Amendment) Act 1991. Assented to 30.8.1991. Date of commencement, 1.10.1991, sec 2 and GG No 134 of 27.9.1991, p 8338.
1992	No 112	Statute Law (Penalties) Act 1992. Assented to 8.12.1992. Date of commencement, assent, sec 2.
1994	No 95	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1994. Assented to 12.12.1994. Date of commencement of the provisions of Sch 1 relating to the Sporting Injuries Insurance Act 1978, 1.7.1995, Sch 1 and GG No 66 of 2.6.1995, p 2838.
1995	No 99	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1995. Assented to 21.12.1995. Date of commencement of the provision of Sch 2 relating to the Sporting Injuries Insurance Act 1978, assent, sec 2 (2).
1996	No 24	Financial Institutions (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 1996. Assented to 21.6.1996. Date of commencement, 12.7.1996, sec 2 and GG No 84 of 12.7.1996, p 3984.
	No 30	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1996. Assented to 21.6.1996. Date of commencement of Sch 2, assent, sec 2 (1).
	No 121	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1996. Assented to 3.12.1996. Date of commencement of Sch 3, 3 months after assent, sec 2 (3).
1997	No 102	Trustee Amendment (Discretionary Investments) Act 1997. Assented to 25.11.1997. Date of commencement, 13.3.1998, sec 2 and GG No 52 of 13.3.1998, p 1381.
	No 134	WorkCover Legislation Amendment Act 1997. Assented to 16.12.1997. Date of commencement of Sch 2, 6.2.1998, sec 2 and GG No 22 of 6.2.1998, p 525.
1998	No 85	Workers Compensation Legislation Amendment Act 1998. Assented to 14.7.1998. Date of commencement of Sch 2, 1.8.1998, sec 2 and GG No 115 of 31.7.1998, p 5747.
1999	No 31	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1999. Assented to 7.7.1999. Date of commencement of Schs 4 and 5, assent, sec 2 (1).
	No 94	Crimes Legislation Amendment (Sentencing) Act 1999. Assented to 8.12.1999. Date of commencement of sec 7 and Sch 5, 1.1.2000, sec 2 (1) and GG No 144 of 24.12.1999, p 12184.
2000	No 44	Intergovernmental Agreement Implementation (GST) Act 2000. Assented to 27.6.2000. Date of commencement of Sch 12, 30.6.2000, sec 2 (2).
2001	No 34	Corporations (Consequential Amendments) Act 2001. Assented to 28.6.2001. Date of commencement of Sch 2.47, 15.7.2001, sec 2 (1) and Commonwealth Gazette No S 285 of 13.7.2001.
2002	No 23	Compensation Court Repeal Act 2002. Assented to 21.6.2002. Date of commencement of Sch 1.8, 1.1.2004, sec 2 (2).
	No 73	Miscellaneous Acts Amendment (Relationships) Act 2002. Assented to 1.10.2002. Date of commencement, 1.11.2002, sec 2 and GG No 201 of 1.11.2002, p 9302.
	No 124	Workers Compensation Legislation Amendment Act 2002. Assented to 16.12.2002. Date of commencement of Sch 3, 1.7.2003, sec 2 and GG No 104 of 27.6.2003, p 5982.
2004	No 56	Workers Compensation Legislation Amendment Act 2004. Assented to 6.7.2004. Date of commencement of Sch 3, 9.7.2004, sec 2 (1) and GG No 117 of 9.7.2004, p 5772.
2005	No 64	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2005. Assented to 1.7.2005. Date of commencement of Sch 1.34, assent, sec 2 (2).
2007	No 94	Miscellaneous Acts (Local Court) Amendment Act 2007. Assented to 13.12.2007. Date of commencement of Sch 4, 6.7.2009, sec 2 and 2009 (314) LW 3.7.2009.
2009	No 49	NSW Trustee and Guardian Act 2009. Assented to 26.6.2009. Date of commencement, 1.7.2009, sec 2 and 2009 (305) LW 1.7.2009.

Table of amendments

No reference is made to certain amendments made by Schedule 3 (amendments replacing gender-specific language) to the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1996.

Long title	Am 1984 No 65, Sch 1 (1).
Sec 3	Am 1981 No 116, Schs 1 (1), 2 (1); 1984 No 65, Sch 1 (2). Rep 1999 No 31, Sch 5.99.
Sec 4	Am 1981 No 116, Schs 2 (2), 4 (1); 1984 No 65, Sch 1 (3); 1984 No 92, Sch 1 (1); 1997 No 134, Sch 2 [1]; 2002 No 23, Sch 1.8 [1].
Sec 5	Am 1981 No 116, Sch 4 (2).
Sec 5A	Ins 2002 No 124, Sch 3 [1].
Sec 6	Am 1984 No 92, Sch 1 (2); 1987 No 79, Sch 1; 1998 No 85, Sch 2.10 [1]; 2002 No 23, Sch 1.8 [2].
Sec 8	Am 1984 No 65, Sch 1 (4).
Sec 11	Am 1984 No 65, Sch 1 (5); 2002 No 124, Sch 3 [2]; 2005 No 64, Sch 1.34.
Secs 11A, 11B	Ins 1984 No 65, Sch 1 (6).
Sec 12	Am 1984 No 65, Sch 1 (7); 1996 No 30, Sch 2; 1997 No 102, Sch 2.9.
Sec 13	Am 1983 No 153, Sch 1. Subst 1985 No 231, Sch 31.
Sec 14	Am 1996 No 24, Sch 1.
Sec 15	Rep 1983 No 153, Sch 1.
Part 4	Subst 1981 No 116, Sch 2 (3).
Sec 16	Am 1981 No 116, Sch 4 (3). Subst 1981 No 116, Sch 2 (3).
Sec 17	Subst 1981 No 116, Sch 2 (3).
Sec 18	Subst 1981 No 116, Sch 2 (3). Am 1987 No 79, Sch 1; 1998 No 85, Sch 2.10 [2].
Sec 18A	Ins 1981 No 116, Sch 2 (3). Am 1986 No 16, Sch 23; 2001 No 34, Sch 2.47.
Sec 18B	Ins 1981 No 116, Sch 2 (3).
Sec 19	Subst 1984 No 65, Sch 1 (8).
Sec 20	Am 1984 No 65, Sch 1 (9).
Sec 24	Am 1984 No 92, Sch 1 (3); 2004 No 56, Sch 3 [1].
Sec 25	Am 1983 No 71, Sch 1 (1); 1984 No 92, Sch 1 (3); 1991 No 23, Sch 1 (1); 1997 No 134, Sch 2 [2]-[5].
Sec 26	Am 1983 No 71, Sch 1 (2); 1984 No 65, Sch 1 (10); 1991 No 23, Sch 1 (2); 1997 No 134, Sch 2 [6]-[8]; 2002 No 73, Sch 1.24 [1] [2].
Sec 27	Am 1981 No 116, Sch 4 (4); 1984 No 65, Sch 1 (11).
Sec 28	Am 1984 No 65, Sch 2 (1); 2009 No 49, Sch 2.54.
Sec 28A	Ins 1991 No 23, Sch 1 (3).
Sec 29	Am 1984 No 92, Sch 1 (4); 2002 No 23, Sch 1.8 [3].
Sec 30	Am 1981 No 116, Sch 1 (2); 1987 No 48, Sch 32.
Sec 31	Am 1981 No 116, Schs 3, 4 (5); 1984 No 65, Sch 1 (12); 1985 No 231, Sch 31; 1992 No 112, Sch 1; 1994 No 95, Sch 1; 1995 No 99, Sch 2.
Sec 32	Am 1999 No 31, Sch 4.87; 2007 No 94, Sch 4.
Sec 33	Am 1992 No 112, Sch 1.
Sec 35A	Ins 1984 No 65, Sch 1 (13). Am 1984 No 65, Sch 2 (2).
Sec 35B	Ins 1984 No 65, Sch 1 (13).
Sec 36	Subst 1984 No 65, Sch 1 (14).
Sec 37	Ins 1997 No 134, Sch 2 [9].
Sch 1	Am 1981 No 116, Sch 1 (3). Subst 1983 No 71, Sch 1 (3); 1991 No 23, Sch 1 (4); 1997 No 134, Sch 2 [10].
Sch 2	Am 1984 No 65, Sch 2 (3); 1984 No 92, Sch 2; 1987 No 79, Sch 1; 1988 No 132, Sch 2; 1989 No 121, Sch 1; 1990 No 108, Sch 1; 1997 No 134, Sch 2 [11]-[14]; 1999 No 94, sec 7 (1) and Sch 5, Part 1.
Sch 3, heading	Subst 1981 No 116, Sch 1 (4) (a). Am 1984 No 65, Sch 1 (15).
Sch 3	Am 1981 No 116, Sch 1 (4) (b)-(h).
Sch 4	Ins 1984 No 65, Sch 1 (16).
Sch 5	Ins 1997 No 134, Sch 2 [15]. Am 2000 No 44, Sch 12.5; 2002 No 73, Sch 1.24 [3] [4]; 2004 No 56, Sch 3 [2] [3].
The whole Act	Am 1997 No 134, Sch 2 [16] (“registered player” and “registered players” omitted wherever occurring, “registered participant” and “registered participants” inserted instead respectively).
The whole Act	Am 1997 No 134, Sch 2 [17] (“enrolled player” and “enrolled players” omitted wherever occurring, “enrolled student participant” and “enrolled student participants” inserted instead respectively).