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South Australia
Return to Work Corporation of South Australia (Crown
Claims Management) Amendment Bill 2017
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the
Return
to Work Corporation of South Australia Act 1994
.
Contents
Part 2—Amendment of Return to Work
Corporation of South Australia Act 1994
Part 5A—Crown claims
management
24ACessation of registration of
Crown as self-insured employer
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Return to Work Corporation of South
Australia (Crown Claims Management) Amendment Act 2017.
This Act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by
proclamation.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Return to Work Corporation of South Australia
Act 1994
After Part 5 insert:
Part 5A—Crown claims
management
24A—Cessation of registration of Crown as
self-insured employer
(1) The deemed
registration of a Crown entity as a self-insured employer under section 130 of
the
Return
to Work Act 2014
ceases to operate—
(a) in the case of a Crown entity that is not a designated Crown
entity—on the commencement day; and
(b) in the case of a
designated Crown entity—on a day specified by the Minister by notice in
the Gazette.
(2) For the
purposes of
subsection (1)
, the delegation of powers and discretions of the Corporation under section
134 of the
Return
to Work Act 2014
to a Crown entity will, if the Minister so determines by notice in the
Gazette, continue, in whole or in part, to such extent as the Minister thinks
fit in relation to injuries that occurred before the day on which the Crown
entity's deemed registration ceases under
subsection (1)
until a day specified by the Minister in the notice or a subsequent notice
(and any act or omission of the Crown entity within the scope of the delegation
will be taken for the purposes of the
Return
to Work Act 2014
to be the act or omission of a self-insured employer).
(3) The Minister may—
(a) for the purposes of
subsection (1)(b)
—
(i) specify different days in relation to different designated Crown
entities; and
(ii) make 2 or more notices in relation to different designated Crown
entities at such times as the Minister thinks fit; and
(iii) vary or revoke a notice made under that subsection; or
(b) for the purposes of
subsection (2)
—
(i) specify different days in relation to different Crown entities;
and
(ii) make 2 or more notices in relation to different Crown entities at
such times as the Minister thinks fit; and
(iii) vary or revoke a notice made under that subsection.
agency or instrumentality of the Crown includes any body
prescribed by regulation under section 130(4) of the
Return
to Work Act 2014
;
commencement day means the day on which
subsection (1)
comes into operation;
Crown entity means the Crown and any agency or
instrumentality of the Crown;
designated Crown entity means a Crown entity declared by the
Governor to be a designated Crown entity by notice in the Gazette for the
purposes of this definition.
24B—Transitional Regulations
(1) The Governor
may, by regulation, make additional provisions of a saving or transitional
nature consequent on the enactment of this Part.
(2) A provision of
a regulation made under
subsection (1)
may, if the regulations so provide, take effect from the commencement of
this section or from a later day.
(3) To the extent to which a provision takes effect under
subsection (2)
from a day earlier than the day of the publication of the regulation in
the Gazette, the provision does not operate to the disadvantage of a person
by—
(a) decreasing the person's rights; or
(b) imposing liabilities on the person.
(4) Regulations made under
subsection (1)
may make provision in relation to when injuries are to be taken to have
occurred for the purposes of
section 24A(2)
.