STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 233.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1940.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the National Security Act 1939-1940.

Dated this fourteenth day of May, 1942.

(SGD.) GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Signature of Eddie J. Ward

for and on behalf of the Minister of
State for Defence.

 

Amendment of National Security (Supplementary) Regulations.†

The National Security (Supplementary) Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following regulation:—

“Overtime earnings not to affect eligibility for workers’ compensation.

58.—(1.) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law of any State or Territory of the Commonwealth or in any agreement or scheme, in the application of any provision of any such law or of any agreement or scheme affecting the eligibility of any person to claim and receive workers’ compensation, any salary, remuneration or earnings of any person in respect of overtime work shall not be taken into account.

(2.) In this regulation—

“overtime work” means work outside the normal working hours prescribed by any law or any industrial award, determination or agreement and includes work on Sundays and holidays where that work is remunerated at a special rate; and

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1942.

† Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126, as amended by Statutory Rules 1940, Nos. 151, 169, 213, 228, 233, 234, 245 and 257; 1941, Nos. 75, 88, 100, 140, 197, 200, 222, 249, 296, 297, 303, 314, 318, 320 and 323; and 1942, Nos. 16, 20, 21, 36, 40, 50, 57, 62, 63, 72, 78, 90, 111, 125, 132, 147, 150, 153, 154, 157, 161, 172, 175, 185, 188, 189, 197, 201, 213 and              .

3399.—Price 3d. 25/8.5.1942.


“workers’ compensation” means compensation in respect of personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of employment or out of or in the course of employment payable under any law of a State or Territory of the Commonwealth or under any agreement or scheme recognized or approved by or under any such law, and includes compensation or other benefit payable under any such law, agreement or scheme in respect of any occupational disease.”.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.