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Accident Compensation Act 2001

Miscellaneous provisions - Regulation-making powers

336: Amendment of Schedule 2 by Order in Council

You could also call this:

"The Government can update the list of work-related injuries and their causes"

The Governor-General can change Schedule 2 by making an Order in Council if the Minister recommends it. You can add or change descriptions of personal injuries in the schedule. This includes adding or changing the things that cause these injuries, like chemicals or radiation, and how much exposure to them is harmful. You can also add or change the jobs or industries related to these injuries. The schedule can be updated to match what international organisations say or do.

Before the Minister can recommend changes, they need to talk to people or groups they think should have a say. They decide who to talk to based on what the changes are about.

When an order is made to change Schedule 2, it's called secondary legislation. This means it has to follow certain rules about how it's published and made official.

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Part 9Miscellaneous provisions
Regulation-making powers

336Amendment of Schedule 2 by Order in Council

  1. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the Minister, amend Schedule 2 by—

  2. adding or varying the description of a personal injury, together with the corresponding—
    1. agents, dusts, compounds, substances, radiation, or things (as the case may be) and, if appropriate, the relevant level or extent of exposure to such agents, dusts, compounds, substances, radiation, or things; or
      1. occupations, industries, or processes; or
      2. updating the schedule in order that the schedule may conform with the terminology or recommended practices of any international organisation.

        1. The Minister must not make any recommendation under subsection (1) without first consulting the persons or organisations the Minister considers appropriate, having regard to the subject matter of the proposed order.

        2. An order under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

        Notes
        • Section 336(1)(a): substituted, on , by section 30 of the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 46).
        • Section 336(3): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).