Return to Work (Scheme Sustainability) Amendment Bill 2022 (SA)

South Australia Return to Work (Scheme Sustainability) Amendment Bill 2022 A Bill For An Act to amend the Return to Work Act 2014.

Contents Part 1—Preliminary 1 Short title 2 Commencement Part 2—Amendment of Return to Work Act 2014 3 Amendment of section 4—Interpretation 4 Amendment of section 7—Injury must arise from employment 5 Amendment of section 21—Seriously injured workers 6 Amendment of section 22—Assessment of permanent impairment 7 Amendment of section 33—Medical expenses 8 Amendment of section 40—Supplementary income support for incapacity resulting from surgery 9 Amendment of section 53—Redemptions—liabilities associated with weekly payments 10 Amendment of section 56—Lump sum payments—economic loss 11 Insertion of section 56A 56A Seriously injured worker—election to receive lump sum payment 12 Amendment of section 72—No damages unless whole person impairment of at least 30% 13 Amendment of section 73—Seriously injured workers—special provisions 14 Amendment of section 97—Reviewable decisions 15 Amendment of section 134—Delegation to self-insured employers 16 Amendment of Schedule 7—Prescribed sum—economic loss 17 Amendment of Schedule 9—Repeal and transitional provisions Schedule 1—Transitional provisions 1 Interpretation 2 Application of amendments—seriously injured workers threshold 3 General provision—seriously injured workers 4 Elections—seriously injured workers 5 Interim decisions under section 21(3) of Act 6 Amendment or substitution of Impairment Assessment Guidelines 7 Impairment Assessment Guidelines 8 Supplementary income support

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows: Part 1—Preliminary 1—Short title This Act may be cited as the Return to Work (Scheme Sustainability) Amendment Act 2022. 2—Commencement This Act comes into operation on a day to be fixed by proclamation.