Page 549 - Week 02 - Thursday, 25 February 1993
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Bill, by leave, taken as a whole
MR BERRY (Minister for Health, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Sport) (4.20): Madam Speaker, I seek leave to move five amendments to clauses 4 and 5 together.
MADAM SPEAKER: Is leave granted? There being no objection, leave is granted.
Mr Moore: Provided that they are the amendments he circulated.
MR BERRY: Trust me.
Mr Moore: Don't I always?
MR BERRY: Indeed, because you know me well. Madam Speaker, the Legislative Assembly's Scrutiny - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Berry, I think you were distracted a little. Would you move your amendments and present the supplementary memorandum. Then you can speak to them.
MR BERRY: Yes, I was distracted. I move:
Page 2, clause 4, line 4, proposed new section 9AA, omit "a disease that is".
Page 2, clause 4, line 5, proposed new section 9AA, after "as if -" insert the following paragraph:
"(a) without limiting the generality of the definition of 'disease' in subsection 6(1), a loss, or a further loss, of hearing were a disease for the purposes of that section;".
Page 2, clause 4, lines 6, 9 and 11, proposed new section 9AA, paragraphs 9AA(a) to (c) (inclusive) are renumbered (b) to (d) respectively.
Page 2, clause 4, line 12, proposed new section 9AA, omit from proposed new subsection 9(6) "an injury", substitute "the contraction of a disease, or the aggravation, acceleration or recurrence, as the case may be, that is".
Page 3, subclause 5(2), line 19, omit "1991", substitute "1992".
I present the supplementary explanatory memorandum. Madam Speaker, the Legislative Assembly's Scrutiny of Bills Committee, in its report No. 23 of 1992, indicated an error in clause 5 of the Workers' Compensation (Amendment) Bill 1992. Clause 5 is intended to rectify an incorrect reference in Schedule 1 of the Workers' Compensation Act 1951, which was amended in 1992. The effect of the incorrect reference was to reduce the amount of compensation payable to
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