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WORKCOVER CORPORATION ACT 1994 - NOTES

Legislative history

Notes

• Amendments of this version that are uncommenced are not incorporated into the text.

• Please note—References in the legislation to other legislation or instruments or to titles of bodies or offices are not automatically updated as part of the program for the revision and publication of legislation and therefore may be obsolete.

• Earlier versions of this Act (historical versions) are listed at the end of the legislative history.

• For further information relating to the Act and subordinate legislation made under the Act see the Index of South Australian Statutes or www.legislation.sa.gov.au.

Principal Act and amendments

New entries appear in bold.

Year

No

Title

Assent

Commencement

1994

51

WorkCover Corporation Act 1994

16.6.1994

1.7.1994 (Gazette 30.6.1994 p1842)

1995

35

Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Act 1995

27.4.1995

Sch 2—25.5.1995 (Gazette 25.5.1995 p2200)

1995

105

Statutes Amendment (Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation) Act 1995

14.12.1995

Pt 3—1.7.1994: s 2(b)

1998

30

Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation (Self Managed Employer Scheme) Amendment Act 1998

16.4.1998

s 7—13.4.2000 (Gazette 13.4.2000 p2084)—cancelled on 13.4.2004: s 8

1999

33

Financial Sector Reform (South Australia) Act 1999

17.6.1999

Sch item 63—1.7.1999 being the date specified under s 3(16) of the Financial Sector Reform (Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act (No. 1) 1999 of the Commonwealth as the transfer date for the purposes of that Act: s 2(2)

2005

41

Occupational Health, Safety and Welfare (SafeWork SA) Amendment Act 2005

14.7.2005

Sch 1 (cll 2—4)—15.8.2005 (Gazette 11.8.2005 p3011)

2008

16

WorkCover Corporation (Governance Review) Amendment Act 2008

19.6.2008

1.7.2008 (Gazette 26.6.2008 p2555)

2009

58

Statutes Amendment (National Industrial Relations System) Act 2009

26.11.2009

Pt 18 (s 46)—1.1.2010 (Gazette 17.12.2009 p6351)

2009

84

Statutes Amendment (Public Sector Consequential Amendments) Act 2009

10.12.2009

Pt 166 (ss 371—374)—1.2.2010 (Gazette 28.1.2010 p320)

2011

48

Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation (Employer Payments) Amendment Act 2011

8.12.2011

Sch 2 (cll 5—8)—1.7.2012 (Gazette 29.3.2012 p1294)

Provisions amended

New entries appear in bold.

Entries that relate to provisions that have been deleted appear in italics.

Provision

How varied

Commencement

Pt 1



s 2

omitted under Legislation Revision and Publication Act 2002

13.4.2004

Pt 2



s 4



s 4(4)

deleted by 16/2008 s 4

1.7.2008

s 6



s 6(3)

(e) deleted by 84/2009 s 371

1.2.2010

ss 8 and 9

deleted by 84/2009 s 372

1.2.2010

s 10



s 10(2)—(4)

deleted by 84/2009 s 373

1.2.2010

Pt 3



s 13



s 13(1)

(a)(i) deleted by 41/2005 Sch 1 (cl 2(1))

15.8.2005


amended by 41/2005 Sch 1 (cl 2(2), (3))

15.8.2005


(m) deleted by 41/2005 Sch 1 (cl 2(4))

15.8.2005


amended by 16/2008 s 5

1.7.2008

s 14



s 14(2)

amended by 33/1999 Sch (item 63)

1.7.1999

s 14(3)

substituted by 105/1995 s 8

1.7.1994

s 14(4)

amended by 35/1995 Sch 2

25.5.1995


substituted by 105/1995 s 8

1.7.1994


substituted by 30/1998 s 7(a) but this amendment cancelled by 30/1998 s 8(a)

13.4.2000—cancelled on 13.4.2004

s 14(4a)

inserted by 105/1995 s 8

1.7.1994


amended by 30/1998 s 7(b) but this amendment cancelled by 30/1998 s 8(a)

13.4.2000—cancelled on 13.4.2004

s 14A

inserted by 16/2008 s 6

1.7.2008

s 16



s 16(3)

substituted by 41/2005 Sch 1 (cl 3)

15.8.2005

s 17



s 17(2)

amended by 105/1995 s 9

1.7.1994

s 17(2a)

inserted by 16/2008 s 7(1)

1.7.2008

s 17(3)

amended by 16/2008 s 7(2)

1.7.2008

Pt 3A

inserted by 16/2008 s 8

1.7.2008

Pt 4



s 18



s 18(3)

amended by 16/2008 s 9

1.7.2008

s 19

substituted by 16/2008 s 10

1.7.2008

Pt 5



s 22



s 22(3)

substituted by 84/2009 s 374

1.2.2010

s 22(4)—(6)

deleted by 84/2009 s 374

1.2.2010

s 22A

inserted by 58/2009 s 46

1.1.2010

Sch



cl 1

substituted by 41/2005 Sch 1 (cl 4)

15.8.2005

cll 2—4

deleted by 41/2005 Sch 1 (cl 4)

15.8.2005

Transitional etc provisions associated with Act or amendments

Statutes Amendment (Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation) Act 1995

10—Saving provision

This Part is not to affect the decision of the Review Officer in the case of Warren and Inghams Enterprises Pty Ltd and WorkCover Corporation (ie Determination No 95-0458) or later decisions in appellate proceedings.

Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation (Self Managed Employer Scheme) Amendment Act 1998

8—Sunset provision

On the expiration of 4 years from the commencement of this Act—

(a) the amendments made by this Act (other than by section 6) are cancelled and the text of the Acts amended by this Act is restored to the form in which that statutory text would have existed if this Act had not been passed; and

(b) section 107B of the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1986 (as inserted by section 6 of this Act) is amended by striking out from subsection (4) ", a self managed employer or the claims manager for a group of self managed employers".

Historical versions

Reprint No 1—25.5.1995


Reprint No 2—1.7.1994


Reprint No 3—1.7.1999


Reprint No 4—13.4.2000


13.4.2004


15.8.2005


1.7.2008


1.1.2010


Appendix—Divisional penalties and expiation fees

At the date of publication of this version divisional penalties and expiation fees are, as provided by section 28A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1915, as follows:


Division

Maximum imprisonment

Maximum fine

Expiation fee

1

15 years

$60 000


2

10 years

$40 000


3

7 years

$30 000


4

4 years

$15 000


5

2 years

$8 000


6

1 year

$4 000

$300

7

6 months

$2 000

$200

8

3 months

$1 000

$150

9


$500

$100

10


$200

$75

11


$100

$50

12


$50

$25

Note: This appendix is provided for convenience of reference only.



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