New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WORKERS COMPENSATION (BUSH FIRE, EMERGENCY AND RESCUE SERVICES) ACT 1987 - SECT 19

19 Bush Fire Fighters Compensation Fund

(cf former s 17E)

(1) There shall be established and kept in the Special Deposits Account in the Treasury an account to be called the “Bush Fire Fighters Compensation Fund”.

(2) There shall be paid into the Bush Fire Fighters Compensation Fund:

(a) the amounts required to be transferred to the Fund under section 20, and

(b) such amounts as are appropriated by Parliament for the purposes of the Fund.

(3) There shall be paid from the Bush Fire Fighters Compensation Fund:

(a) compensation payable under this Part,

(a1) to the Minister administering the District Court Act 1973 , such of the costs of operation of the District Court relating to determinations under section 16 (4), being costs incurred after 30 June 2005, as the Minister administering the District Court Act 1973 and the Minister administering this Act agree are to be paid from the Fund,

(b) the costs of administration of this Part, and

(c) all expenses incurred by the Authority in the exercise of its functions under this Part.

(4) The Bush Fire Fighters Compensation Fund established under section 17E of the Workers’ Compensation Act 1926 shall, on the commencement of this Act, be deemed to have been established under this section.