Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (Prescribed Cancers) Regulations 2022
I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.
Dated 15 December 2022
David Hurley
Governor‑General
By His Excellency’s Command
Tony Burke
Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations
Contents
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4............ Schedules...................................................................................................................... 1
Schedule 1—Amendments 2
Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Regulations 2019 2
1 Name
This instrument is the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (Prescribed Cancers) Regulations 2022.
2 Commencement
(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
| Commencement information |
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
| 1. The whole of this instrument | The day after this instrument is registered. | 17 December 2022 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.
3 Authority
This instrument is made under the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988.
4 Schedules
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendments
Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Regulations 2019
1 Before section 8
Insert:
8A Prescribed kinds of cancer
For the purposes of item 13 in the table in subsection 7(8) of the Act, a kind of cancer specified in an item of the following table, and the qualifying period specified in the item for that kind of cancer, are prescribed.
| Prescribed kinds of cancer |
| Item | Disease | Qualifying period |
| 1 | Primary site lung cancer | 15 years |
| 2 | Primary site skin cancer | 15 years |
| 3 | Primary site cervical cancer | 10 years |
| 4 | Primary site ovarian cancer | 10 years |
| 5 | Primary site penile cancer | 15 years |
| 6 | Primary site pancreatic cancer | 10 years |
| 7 | Primary site thyroid cancer | 10 years |
| 8 | Malignant mesothelioma | 15 years |
2 In the appropriate position in Part 5
Insert:
Division 2—Provisions for the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (Prescribed Cancers) Regulations 2022
36 Application of amendments
Section 8A, as inserted by the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (Prescribed Cancers) Regulations 2022, applies in relation to a decision made under the Act (including a decision on reconsideration or review under Part VI of the Act), after the commencement of that instrument, in relation to a cancer mentioned in that section sustained by an employee on or after 4 July 2011.