Western Australian Consolidated Acts

EMPLOYERS' INDEMNITY SUPPLEMENTATION FUND ACT 1980 - SECT 3

3 .         Terms used in this Act

                In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears — 

        Corporations Act means the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth;

        employer has the same meaning as it has in the Workers’ Compensation and Injury Management Act 1981 ;

        employer’s policy means — 

            (a)         a policy of insurance providing — 

                  (i)         the cover required by section 160 of the Workers’ Compensation and Injury Management Act 1981 ; and

                  (ii)         cover for an employer’s liability to pay damages at common law for injury to, or the death of, a worker employed by him;

                and

            (b)         a policy of insurance providing either of those forms of cover,

        and where an employer has more than one employer’s policy, as so defined, the expression the employer’s policy extends to all such policies;

        Fund means Employers’ Indemnity Supplementation Fund established under section 5(1);

        Insurance Commission means the body continued as the Insurance Commission of Western Australia under the Insurance Commission of Western Australia Act 1986 ;

        insurer means incorporated insurance office approved under section 161 of the Workers’ Compensation and Injury Management Act 1981 ;

        liquidator , in relation to an insurer, includes official manager, receiver or receiver and manager;

        self-insurer means employer whom, or employer belonging to a group of employers which, the Governor exempts under section 164 of the Workers’ Compensation and Injury Management Act 1981  from the obligation to insure pursuant to that Act except for the obligation to insure against liability to pay compensation for any industrial disease of the kinds referred to in section 151(a)(iii) of that Act;

        surcharge period means a period the commencement and expiry times of which are prescribed by the regulations;

        the appropriate surcharge has the meaning given by section 14(2);

        Treasurer means Treasurer of the State;

        WorkCover WA means the WorkCover Western Australia Authority referred to in the Workers’ Compensation and Injury Management Act 1981 section 94.

        [Section 3 amended by No. 26 of 1981 s. 3 (as amended by No. 88 of 1981 s. 3); No. 49 of 1982 s. 4; No. 51 of 1986 s. 46(2); No. 86 of 1986 s. 3; No. 1 of 1993 s. 4 and 13; No. 45 of 1996 s. 38; No. 2 of 2001 s. 4; No. 20 of 2003 s. 21; No. 42 of 2004 s. 159(2) and 174.]