South Australian Consolidated Regulations

WORKERS REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION (GENERAL) REGULATIONS 1999 - REG 30

30—Transitional provision—Compensation for medical expenses

        (1)         In this regulation—

"designated set of regulations" means—

            (a)         the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation (Scales of Charges—Medical Practitioners) Regulations 1999 ; or

            (b)         the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation (Scales of Medical and Other Charges) Regulations 1995 ;

"principal Act" means the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1986 ;

2008 Amendment Act means the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation (Scheme Review) Amendment Act 2008 .

        (2)         Subject to subregulations (3) and (4), a designated set of regulations, as in force immediately before the commencement of section 11 of the 2008 Amendment Act, remains in force after that commencement.

        (3)         If the Minister, by notice published under section 32 of the principal Act as amended by the 2008 Amendment Act, sets a scale of charges that is expressed to supersede any part of—

            (a)         the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation (Scales of Charges—Medical Practitioners) Regulations 1999 ; or

            (b)         the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation (Scales of Medical and Other Charges) Regulations 1995 ,

then the relevant regulations will be taken to be superseded to the extent provided by the notice insofar as the regulations apply in relation to workers who have suffered compensable disabilities under the principal Act.

        (4)         A designated set of regulations will cease to have effect when entirely superseded by 1 or more notices published by the Minister under section 32 of the principal Act.