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South Australia
Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation (SACFS) Amendment
Bill 2014
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Workers
Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1986.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1Short
title
2Commencement
3Amendment
provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Workers
Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1986
4Amendment of section
31—Evidentiary provision
5Amendment of section 103A—Special
provision for prescribed classes of volunteers
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation
(SACFS) Amendment Act 2014.
This Act will be taken to have come into operation on
1 July 2013.
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 Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation
Act 1986
4—Amendment
of section 31—Evidentiary provision
(1) Section 31(2a)(c)—after "(SAMFS)"
insert:
or the South Australian Country Fire Service
(SACFS)
(2) Section 31(2a)—delete "employment by SAMFS" and
substitute:
that employment
(3) Section 31(2b)—delete subsection (2b)
(4) Section 31(3)(b)—delete "subsections (2a) and (2b)" and
substitute:
subsection (2a)
(5) Section 31(4b)—delete subsection (4b)
5—Amendment
of section 103A—Special provision for prescribed classes of
volunteers
Section 103A—after subsection (2) insert:
(3) In this section—
person of a prescribed class means—
(a) a member of SACFS (within the meaning of the Fire
and Emergency Services Act 2005) who receives no remuneration in
respect of his or her service in that capacity; and
(b) any other person of a class prescribed by the regulations for the
purposes of this definition;
work of a prescribed class means—
(a) in relation to a person who is a member of SACFS—
(i) any activity directed towards—
(A) preventing, controlling or extinguishing a fire; or
(B) dealing with any other emergency that requires SACFS to act to protect
life, property or the environment; or
(ii) attending in response to a call for assistance by SACFS; or
(iii) attending an SACFS meeting, competition, training exercise or other
organised activity; or
(iv) any other activity carried out in relation to the functions of SACFS
under the Fire
and Emergency Services Act 2005; or
(b) in any other case—work of a class prescribed by the regulations
for the purposes of this definition.