EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

WORKERS COMPENSATION INSURERS DOWNLOAD SPECIFICATION 2002 (No 1)

NOTIFIABLE INSTRUMENT NI 2002—208

Workers Compensation Act 1951

Legislative context

The Workers Compensation Act 1951 and the Workers Compensation Regulations 2002 establishes a framework to rehabilitate injured workers.  Employers, insurers and injured employees are obliged to cooperate in the development and implementation of personal injury plans.

The Workers Compensation Regulations 2002 provides for the Minister’s approval of insurers, who are considered suitable for selling workers compensation insurance policies in the Territory.  Regulation 78 states it is a condition of an insurer’s approval to comply with any protocols, relating to insurers, made by the Minister.  Regulation 100 empowers the Minister to make protocols about the form in which information required under the Act, or regulations, must be given.

Outline

The Insurers’ Download Specification 2002 are data fields required by the ACT Government for the Accident Information Management Systeme (AIMS) database.  Most data collected by the database is provided by insurers.

The Insurers’ Download Specification 2002 formalises an existing arrangement  between insurers and the Government to provide particular information in a particular form, which is set out in the protocol.

Financial Impact

Creating a protocol of the Insurers’ Download Specification has no financial impact.