South Australian Consolidated Regulations

WORKERS REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION (CLAIMS AND REGISTRATION) REGULATIONS 1999 - REG 8

8—Registration of employers

        (1)         If—

            (a)         a person (the employer) employs one or more persons (the workers) under a contract of service or contracts of service; and

            (b)         the workers are not employed for the purposes of a trade or business carried on by the employer; and

            (c)         the total remuneration payable by the employer to the workers in a particular calendar year does not exceed $10 200 (indexed),

the employer is not, in respect of those workers, required to be registered under section 59 of the Act (and the remuneration paid to those workers need not be included in any return or statement submitted or provided to the Corporation under Part 5 Division 6 of the Act).

        (2)         The employers who are not required to be registered under section 59 of the Act by virtue of subregulation (1) are, in respect of the workers referred to in subregulation (1), a prescribed class of employers exempt from the operation of section 46(3) of the Act.

        (3)         If the total remuneration payable in a particular calendar year by an employer to workers employed by the employer (other than workers of a kind referred to in subregulation (1)) does not exceed $10 200 (indexed), the employer is not required to be registered under section 59 of the Act.

        (4)         However, if a worker employed by an employer who is, but for this subregulation, exempted from the obligation to be registered under section 59 of the Act by virtue of subregulation (3) suffers a disability arising from that employment that is determined under the Act to be a compensable disability, the exemption does not apply in relation to the employer from the day of the occurrence of the disability until the end of the financial year in which the disability occurred.

Note—

An employer required to be registered by the Corporation must apply for registration within 14 days after the obligation to be registered arises—see section 59(3) of the Act.

        (5)         The employers referred to in subregulation (3)—

            (a)         are not required to include the remuneration paid to their workers in any return or statement submitted or provided to the Corporation under Part 5 Division 6 of the Act; and

            (b)         are a prescribed class of employers exempt from the operation of section 46(3) of the Act,

(regardless of whether they are required under subregulation (4) to be registered under section 59 of the Act).