Health and Other Services (Compensation) Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 1)1

Statutory Rules 2002 No. 2282

I, PETER JOHN HOLLINGWORTH, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Health and Other Services (Compensation) Act 1995.

Dated 19 September 2002

PETER HOLLINGWORTH

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

KAY PATTERSON

Minister for Health and Ageing

1 Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Health and Other Services (Compensation) Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 1).

2 Commencement

These Regulations commence on gazettal.

3 Amendment of Health and Other Services (Compensation) Regulations

Schedule 1 amends the Health and Other Services (Compensation) Regulations.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1] Regulation 1

substitute

1 Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Health and Other Services (Compensation) Regulations 1995.

[2] After regulation 4

insert

5 Certain payments not compensation (Act s 4)

(1) Subject to subregulation (2), for paragraph 4 (2) (e) of the Act, a payment is not compensation if the following conditions are met:

(a) the payment is made under a provision of a Commonwealth, State or Territory Act specified in column 2 of an item in Schedule 1;

(b) if any circumstances are specified in column 3 of that item, the payment is made in those circumstances;

(2) If an item in Schedule 1 specifies a date on which a provision of a State or Territory Act is in force, and the provision is amended after that date, subregulation (1) does not apply to payments made under the provision after the commencement of the amendment.

Schedule 1 Prescribed payments

(regulation 5)

Item	Provision	Circumstances	Date for payment
1	Subdivision 1, 2 or 3 of Division 3A of Part IV of the Accident Compensation Act 1985 of Victoria, as in force on 12 December 2001		30 June 2006