Victorian Consolidated Legislation

ACCIDENT COMPENSATION (WORKCOVER INSURANCE) ACT 1993

No. 50 of 1993
Version incorporating amendments as at 28 November 2007

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Section Page

   PART 1-PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purpose
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Definitions
   3A.     Superannuation benefits relating to services performed before 1 January 1998.
   3B.     Superannuation benefits not readily related to particular workers or their periods of service
   4.      Application of Act
   5.      Construction of Act
   6.      Act to bind Crown

   PART 2-WORKCOVER INSURANCE AND PREMIUMS

   7.      Compulsory WorkCover insurance
   8.      Rateable remuneration
   9.      WorkCover insurance policy
   10.     Issue and renewal of WorkCover insurance policies
   11.     Repealed
   12.     Inspection of policies
   13.     Evidence that employer has WorkCover insurance policy
   14.     Employer ceasing to exist
   15.     Premiums order
   16.     Premiums order-general provisions
   17.     Premiums to be calculated in accordance with premiums order
   18.     Estimate of rateable remuneration
   19.     Rateable remuneration-transitional
   20.     Revised estimates of rateable remuneration
   21.     Adjustment of premium
   22.     Application by employer to review premium
   22A.    Application for refund of premium
   22B.    What happens if Authority refuses or fails to determine an application for a refund or fails to make a refund?
   23.     Certificate of rateable remuneration
   24.     Assessment by Authority
   25.     Default penalty
   26.     Payment of premiums
   27.     Review of premium
   28.     Adjustment of premium after review
   28A.    Review of premium in certain circumstances
   28B.    Adjustment of premium after section 28A review
   29.     Notice of adjustment
   30.     Exercise of review and adjustment powers
   31.     Application of review and adjustment powers
   31A.    Refunds
   31B.    Default penalty where failure to provide full and true
           disclosure

   PART 3-LICENSING OF WORKCOVER INSURERS

           32-36. Repealed
   37.     Records and evidence relating to licences
   38.     Repealed
   39.     Information and records to be supplied by insurers
           40, 41. Repealed
   42.     Payment of premiums

   PART 4-Repealed

           43-54. Repealed

   PART 5-UNINSURED EMPLOYERS AND INDEMNITY SCHEME

   55.     Uninsured Employers and Indemnity Scheme
   56.     Repealed
   57.     Claims against section 55(2)(a) or 55(2)(d) employers
   58.     Registration of section 55(2)(a) employer
   59.     Claims against section 55(2)(b) or 55(2)(c) employers
   59A.    Common law claim
   59B.    Deemed contract of insurance
   60.     Authority may require employer to provide information
   61.     Authority may recover amount in relation to claim
   62.     General power of Authority in relation to proceedings

   PART 6-GENERAL PROVISIONS

   63.     Transfer of Authority's liability
   64.     Transfer of rights, obligations and liabilities
   65.     Reciprocal agreements
   66.     Groups
   66A.    Joint and several liability of group members
   67.     Repealed
   68.     Recovery of premium or penalty
   69.     Books and accounts to be preserved
   70.     Warrants to enter and search
   71.     Evidence
   72.     Regulations

   PART 7-SAVING AND TRANSITIONAL

   73.     Authority is successor in law
   74.     Transitional provisions
   75.     Cancellation of licences
   76.     Re-insurance arrangements
   77.     Supreme Court-limitation of jurisdiction
   78.     Repealed
           PARTS 8, 9-Repealed
           79-113. Repealed
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           ENDNOTES
           1. General Information
           2. Table of Amendments
           3. Explanatory Details