Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment Act 2023
An Act to amend the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988
Be it enacted by His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:
This Act may be cited as the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment Act 2023 .
This Act commences on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.
In this Act, the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 is referred to as the Principal Act.
4. Section 27 amended (Presumption as to cause of certain diseases in relation to fire-fighters)
Section 27 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after subsection (7) the following subsection:(7A) For the avoidance of doubt, the amendment of Schedule 5 by a provision of an Act does not prevent the further amendment of that Schedule by regulations that are made in accordance with subsection (7) .
5. Schedule 5 amended (Diseases, of Fire-fighters, in Respect of Which There is Presumption of Cause)
Schedule 5 to the Principal Act is amended by inserting after item 12 the following items:
13.
Primary site cervical cancer
10 years
14.
Primary site ovarian cancer
10 years
15.
Primary site penile cancer
15 years
16.
Primary site thyroid cancer
10 years
17.
Primary site pancreatic cancer
10 years
18.
Primary site skin cancer
15 years
19.
Primary site lung cancer
15 years
20.
Primary site uterine cancer
10 years
21.
Malignant mesothelioma
15 years
This Act is repealed on the first anniversary of the day on which it commenced.
[Second reading presentation speech made in:
House of Assembly on 12 SEPTEMBER 2023
Legislative Council on 18 OCTOBER 2023]