Bill
Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Legislation Amendment (Exit Arrangements) Bill 2015
passed, as at 2016-02-10. Employment portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Employment
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2015-02-26
- second reading — 2015-02-26
- second reading — 2015-05-12
- second reading — 2015-05-12
- committee — 2015-05-12
- third reading — 2015-05-12
- introduced — 2015-05-13
- second reading — 2015-05-13
- second reading — 2015-05-13
- second reading — 2015-05-14
- second reading — 2016-02-02
- second reading — 2016-02-03
- second reading — 2016-02-03
- third reading — 2016-02-03
- passed — 2016-02-03
- royal assent — 2016-02-10
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2015-02-26.
This bill would create rules for how a Commonwealth authority can leave the Comcare workers' compensation scheme.
Comcare would be able to demand one-off exit payments from departing employers and ongoing regulatory fees from them or their successors.
The bill also streamlines how the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission appoints members and sets premiums to fully cover liabilities.
- Comcare can collect exit contributions from former Commonwealth authorities to cover unfunded liabilities.
- Comcare can collect ongoing regulatory contributions from employers that have left the scheme.
- Employees injured before an employer's exit keep rehabilitation support.
- Premium calculations for current authorities must consider fully funding liabilities from Comcare-retained funds and the Consolidated Revenue Fund.
- The Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission's appointment processes are streamlined.
- Minor contingent amendments are made for the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Legislation Amendment Bill 2014.
Commonwealth authorities that leave the Comcare scheme, their employees, and the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission.
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