Bill
Seafarers Safety and Compensation Levies Bill 2016
lapsed, as at 2019-04-11. Employment portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Employment
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2016-10-13
- second reading — 2016-10-13
- other — 2019-04-11
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 2016-10-13.
This bill would create two charges on seafarer positions to pay for a national workplace safety and compensation system for a small number of maritime workers.
An insurance charge would fund a backup fund for seafarers when their employer cannot meet compensation duties, kept at $15 per berth unless changed by regulation after an actuarial review.
A second charge to recover regulatory costs from the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission, Comcare and the Australian Maritime Safety Authority would start at $0 and be introduced gradually through regulations.
- Imposes an insurance levy on seafarer berths to support a safety net fund for unpaid workers' compensation.
- Imposes a cost recovery levy on seafarer berths to cover regulatory expenses of the SRCC, Comcare and AMSA.
- Replaces the Seafarers Rehabilitation and Compensation Levy Act 1992 with this Bill and the Seafarers Safety and Compensation Levies Collection Bill 2016.
- Sets the initial cost recovery levy at $0 with staggered introduction by regulation.
- Requires any increase to the insurance levy to be based on an actuarial assessment of amounts payable from the safety net fund.
- Aligns the scheme with model work health and safety laws and government cost recovery guidelines.
Seafarers and employers in the maritime industry covered by the Seacare scheme.
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