Workers Compensation (Bush Fire, Emergency and Rescue Services) Regulation 2017 (2017-465) (NSW)

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Workers Compensation (Bush Fire, Emergency and Rescue Services) Regulation under the

Workers Compensation (Bush Fire, Emergency and Rescue Services) Act His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Workers Compensation (Bush Fire, Emergency and Rescue Services) Act 1987.

DOMINIC PERROTTET, MP Treasurer

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to remake, without any changes in substance, provisions of the Workers Compensation (Bush Fire, Emergency and Rescue Services) Regulation 2012, which is repealed on 1 September 2017 by section 10 (2) of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1989.

The new Regulation prescribes:

(a) the persons who are emergency service workers and rescue association workers for the purposes of Part 3 of the Workers Compensation (Bush Fire, Emergency and Rescue Services) Act 1987, and

(b) the activities that are authorised activities in relation to emergency service workers and rescue association workers for the purposes of that Part, and

(c) the circumstances in which emergency service workers injured outside New South Wales (but within the Commonwealth of Australia) are covered by workers compensation provisions under that Act, and

(d) the activities that are associated operations or works in relation to fighting bush fires for the purposes of Part 2 of that Act.

This Regulation is made under the Workers Compensation (Bush Fire, Emergency and Rescue Services) Act 1987, including sections 8, 23, 25 and 34 (the general regulation-making power).

This Regulation comprises or relates to matters set out in Schedule 3 to the Subordinate Legislation Act 1989, namely matters of a machinery nature, and matters that are not likely to impose an appreciable burden, cost or disadvantage on any sector of the public.