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INSURANCE COMMISSION OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA AMENDMENT BILL 2002

                       Western Australia


Insurance Commission of Western Australia
          Amendment Bill 2002

                         CONTENTS

1.    Short title                           1
2.    Commencement                          2
3.    The Act amended                       2
4.    Section 3 amended                     2
5.    Section 3A inserted                   3
6.    Section 6 amended                     3
7.    Section 7 amended                     4
8.    Section 16 amended                    4
9.    Section 18 amended                    5
10.   Transition and savings                5




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                      LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

              (As amended during consideration in detail)


     Insurance Commission of Western Australia
               Amendment Bill 2002


                               A Bill for


An Act to amend the Insurance Commission of Western Australia
Act 1986.



The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:


1.      Short title
        This Act may be cited as the Insurance Commission of Western
        Australia Amendment Act 2002.




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     2.         Commencement
                This Act comes into operation on the day on which it receives
                the Royal Assent.

     3.         The Act amended
5               The amendments in this Act are to the Insurance Commission of
                Western Australia Act 1986*.
                [* Reprinted as at 12 November 1999.]

     4.         Section 3 amended
                Section 3 is amended by inserting the following definitions in
10              their appropriate alphabetical positions --
            "
                  "community organisation" means --
                          (a) an association incorporated under the
                               Associations Incorporation Act 1987;
15                        (b) a company limited by guarantee that is
                               registered under section 150 of the
                               Corporations Act 2001 of the
                               Commonwealth; or
                          (c) a company holding a licence that continues
20                             in force under section 151 of the
                               Corporations Act 2001 of the
                               Commonwealth;
                  "eligible community organisation" has the meaning
                          given in section 3A;
25                                                                               ".




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     5.         Section 3A inserted
                After section 3 the following section is inserted in Part 1 --
     "
            3A.       Eligible community organisations
5               (1)   A community organisation is an eligible community
                      organisation for the purposes of this Act if the
                      Treasurer has made a determination under
                      subsection (2) in respect of the organisation or a class
                      of organisations of which it is a member.
10              (2)   The Treasurer may determine that an organisation, or
                      all organisations of a particular class, is or are eligible
                      to participate in an arrangement managed and
                      administered by the Commission for the insurance and
                      risk management of eligible community organisations.
15                                                                                   ".

     6.         Section 6 amended
          (1)   After section 6(c) the following paragraph is inserted --
                      "
                          (ca)   to manage and administer insurance and risk
20                               management arrangements on behalf of eligible
                                 community organisations;
                                                                                     ".
          (2)   Section 6(e) is amended by deleting "paragraphs (a) and (b)"
                and inserting instead --
25              "
                      paragraph (a) or (b) or manage and administer
                      arrangements under paragraph (c) or (ca)
                                                                                     ".




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     7.              Section 7 amended
                     Section 7(4) is amended as follows:
                       (a)    by inserting after "6(c)" --
                              " or (ca) ";
5                     (b)     in paragraph (a) by inserting after "authorities" --
                              " or eligible community organisations ";
                       (c)    in paragraph (b) by inserting after "authorities" --
                              " or eligible community organisations ".

     8.              Section 16 amended
10        (1)        After section 16(1) the following subsection is inserted --
                "
                    (1a)     The Commission may establish, maintain and
                             administer a fund for the purposes of an arrangement
                             managed and administered by the Commission for the
15                           insurance and risk management of eligible community
                             organisations.
                                                                                      ".
          (2)        After section 16(5) the following subsection is inserted --
                "
20                  (5a)     A fund established under subsection (1a) shall consist
                             of --
                               (a) moneys appropriated for, or derived from or in
                                    connection with, the Commission's functions
                                    under section 6(ca), other than moneys that are
25                                  the subject of a trust of which the Commission
                                    is a trustee under section 7(4)(c);
                               (b) other property received or acquired by the
                                    Commission in connection with the
                                    Commission's functions under section 6(ca);
30                                  and



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                  (c)   moneys or other property credited, apportioned
                        or transferred to the fund by the Commission
                        under section 17 or 18.
                                                                          ".

5    9.    Section 18 amended
           Section 18(2) is amended by deleting "or the Insurance
           Commission General Fund" and inserting instead --
           "
                 , the Insurance Commission General Fund or a fund
10               established under section 16(1a)
                                                                          ".

     10.   Transition and savings
           The functions conferred on the Insurance Commission of
           Western Australia by section 6(ca) and (e) of the Insurance
15         Commission of Western Australia Act 1986 as amended by this
           Act are taken always to have been functions of the Commission.




 


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