Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) This section applies if an employer applies to a licensed insurer for the issue or renewal of a compulsory insurance policy for a particular period (the proposed insurance period ).
(2) The employer must give the licensed insurer, with the application, a statement of the employer's estimate for the proposed insurance period.
Maximum penalty: 250 penalty units, imprisonment for 2 years or both.
Note One or more fault elements apply to this offence (see Criminal Code
, s 22).
(3) The employer must give the licensed insurer, with the application, a statement of the employer's estimate for the proposed insurance period.
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.
(4) A statement of the employer's estimate may be signed for the employer by any of the following:
(a) if the employer is a corporation—an officer of the corporation authorised to sign the statement;
(b) in any other case—an owner of the employer's business.
(5) An offence against subsection (3) is a strict liability offence.
(6) This section does not apply to a non-business employer.
(7) In this section:
"employer's estimate", for a proposed insurance period, means the employer's estimate of the following:
(a) the number of territory workers in each determined category to be employed by the employer in the period;
(b) the total wages to be paid to territory workers in each determined category in the period;
(c) the number of paid and unpaid workers who will work for the employer in the period;
(d) the approximate amount of time each paid and unpaid worker will work for the employer in the period.