Victorian Numbered Acts Victorian Numbered ActsBefore the Schedules to the Principal Act insert —
If, before the commencement of section 6 of the Forests Amendment (Forest Firefighters Presumptive Rights Compensation) Act 2021 —
(a) a forest firefighter has made a claim for compensation under the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013 in respect of an injury that is a disease referred to in column 1 of the table in the Third Schedule which occurred on or after 1 June 2016; and
(b) the Authority has rejected the claim for compensation—
the forest firefighter is entitled to make a new claim for compensation in accordance with sections 72A to 72R.
(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations containing provisions of a transitional nature, including matters of an application or savings nature, arising as a result of the enactment of the Forests Amendment (Forest Firefighters Presumptive Rights Compensation) Act 2021 .
(2) Regulations made under this section may—
(a) have a retrospective effect to a day on or from the date that the Forests Amendment (Forest Firefighters Presumptive Rights Compensation) Act 2021 receives the Royal Assent;
(b) be of limited or general application;
(c) differ according to differences in time, place or circumstances;
(d) leave any matter or thing to be decided by a specified person or class of persons;
(e) provide for the exemption of persons or matters or a class of persons or matters from any of the regulations made under this section.
(3) Regulations made under this section have effect despite anything to the contrary—
(a) in any Act (other than this Act or the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006 ); or
(b) in any subordinate instrument.
(4) This section is repealed on the second anniversary of the day on which it comes into operation.".