Page 3442 - Week 12 - Tuesday, 11 October 1994
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MR DE DOMENICO (9.00): Madam Speaker, I thank the Minister for his kind acknowledgments. I now move:
Page 4, lines 17 and 18, proposed section 26B, omit "within 28 days after the day on which the worker lodges the claim with the employer", substitute "within the prescribed period".
Once again, the Government has given an indication that they will be supporting this amendment; so, I need not waste the time of the Assembly, except to say that I thank the Minister for his intention to support this amendment. I leave it at that.
Amendment agreed to.
MR LAMONT (Minister for Urban Services, Minister for Housing and Community Services, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Sport) (9.01): Once again, we have arrived at a position where there are a range of proposed amendments by the Opposition and the Government that are consistent. Again, I acknowledge the assistance of the Opposition and the Workers Compensation Monitoring Committee in their work on these amendments that are before us this evening. I seek leave to move two amendments together.
Leave granted.
MR LAMONT: I move:
Page 4, line 19, proposed section 26B, after "insurer", insert "(if any)".
Page 4, line 20, proposed paragraph 26B(a), omit the paragraph, substitute the following paragraph:
"(a) commence making weekly compensation payments in accordance with Schedule 1; or".
My amendments and Mr De Domenico's amendments are identical. It is a technical drafting change, which makes the Bill more correct, Madam Speaker.
Amendments agreed to.
MR DE DOMENICO (9.02): I move:
Page 4, line 22, proposed section 26B, add the following subsections:
"(2) The making of weekly compensation payments to a worker in accordance with paragraph (1)(a) shall not be taken to be an admission of liability in relation to the worker's claim for compensation.
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