Western Australian Current Acts

WATERFRONT WORKERS (COMPENSATION FOR ASBESTOS RELATED DISEASES) ACT 1986 - SECT 3

3 .         Terms used

                In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears —

        arbitrator has the same meaning as it has in the Compensation Act;

        Compensation Act means the Workers’ Compensation and Injury Management Act 1981 ;

        Fund means the Employers’ Indemnity Supplementation Fund established under section 5(1) of the Employers’ Indemnity Supplementation Fund Act 1980 ;

        ICWA means the body continued as the Insurance Commission of Western Australia under the Insurance Commission of Western Australia Act 1986 ;

        waterfront worker means a worker, within the meaning of the Compensation Act, employed in or about a harbour or port area at a time when asbestos was being loaded or unloaded from a vessel or otherwise handled in that harbour or port area;

        WorkCover WA has the same meaning as it has in the Compensation Act.

        [Section 3 amended: No. 86 of 1986 s. 11; No. 55 of 1991 s. 3; No. 45 of 1996 s. 38; No. 34 of 1999 s. 61; No. 42 of 2004 s. 170(2) and 174.]