New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WORKERS' COMPENSATION (DUST DISEASES) ACT 1942 - SECT 10

10 Regulations

(1) The Governor may make regulations not inconsistent with this Act prescribing all matters which by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out the provisions of this Act.

(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the Governor may make regulations:

(a)

(i) requiring persons before being employed in any specified dust occupation to submit themselves to medical examination,

(ii) prescribing the physical standard requirements of pre-employment medical examination of workers under this Act,

(iii) regulating or prohibiting the employment in any specified dust occupation of workers who, upon medical examination, are found to be susceptible to a dust disease,

(iv) requiring workers engaged in any specified dust occupation to submit themselves to periodical medical examination,

(iva) requiring persons who have been examined by the medical authority and would but for the Principal Act be entitled to compensation under this Act to submit themselves for periodical medical examination,

(v) prescribing that any or all of the preceding requirements shall be conditions precedent to compensation from the Fund,

(b)

(i) regulating the procedure to be followed in respect of applications for compensation,

(ii) prescribing the form of registers and general forms to be used,

(iii) regulating the procedure at meetings of the board,

(b1) requiring persons to furnish to the board such information as may be specified in the regulations and such other information as the board may require, in relation to the employment and remuneration of applicants for awards of compensation under this Act, of persons receiving compensation under such awards, of persons claimed to be dependent on any such applicant or person receiving compensation, and of persons in respect of whose death application is made for such awards,

(b2) prescribing as a dust occupation any industry or process (other than an industry or process carried on in mines) that is of such a nature that workers engaged therein are exposed to the risk of contracting a dust disease,

(c) prescribing measures to be taken by employers and workers for the prevention or elimination of the risk of contracting a dust disease,

(d) generally giving effect to the purposes of this Act,

(e) imposing any penalty not exceeding 1 penalty unit for any breach of such regulations.

(3) The Governor may, by regulation:

(a) amend Schedule 1 by inserting therein the name of any disease or by omitting therefrom the name of any disease, or

(b) omit Schedule 1 and substitute a different Schedule specifying diseases for the purposes of the definition of “Dust disease” in section 3.