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WORKERS COMPENSATION (BUSH FIRE, EMERGENCY AND RESCUE SERVICES) REGULATION 2007 - NOTES

- Made under the Workers Compensation (Bush Fire, Emergency and Rescue Services) Act 1987 - As at 1 September 2007 - Reg 404 of 2007

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Workers Compensation (Bush Fire, Emergency and Rescue Services) Act 1987.
Minister Assisting the Minister for Finance

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to remake, without any changes in substance, provisions of the Workers Compensation (Bush Fire, Emergency and Rescue Services) Regulation 2002 ( "the 2002 Regulation"), which is repealed on 1 September 2007 by section 10 (2) of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1989.
The new Regulation prescribes:

(a) the persons who are emergency service workers and rescue association workers for the purposes of Part 3 of the Workers Compensation (Bush Fire, Emergency and Rescue Services) Act 1987 ( "the Act"),
(b) the activities that are authorised activities in relation to emergency service workers and rescue association workers for the purposes of that Part,
(c) the circumstances in which emergency service workers injured outside New South Wales (but within the Commonwealth of Australia) are covered by workers compensation provisions under the Act,
(d) the activities that are associated operations or works in relation to fighting bush fires for the purposes of Part 2 of the Act.
Provisions of the 2002 Regulation relating to superseded procedural requirements, and a transitional provision that no longer has any effect, are not continued in force.
This Regulation comprises or relates to matters of a machinery nature, and matters that are not likely to impose an appreciable burden, cost or disadvantage on any sector of the public.
The Regulation is made under the Workers Compensation (Bush Fire, Emergency and Rescue Services) Act 1987, including sections 8, 23, 25 and 34 (the general regulation-making power).

Historical notes

The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes:

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GG Government Gazette Rep repealed Subst substituted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

Table of amending instruments

Workers Compensation (Bush Fire, Emergency and Rescue Services) Regulation 2007 (404). GG No 103 of 24.8.2007, p 5914. Date of commencement, 1.9.2007, cl 2.