AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION ORDINANCE 1968

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
 
No. 19 of 1968

	The primary purpose of this Ordinance is to remove an anomaly in the Workmen’s Compensation Ordinance 1951-1967 in that persons resident in New South Wales, who travel to and from their places of employment in the Australian Capital Territory, are not afforded protection under the Ordinance where, through accident, personal injury or death occurs while such persons are commuting to or from their places of employment in the Territory.

	The Ordinance will also provide that employers cannot contract out of their obligations under the terms of the Ordinance, and will increase the benefits to conform with those at present payable under the Commonwealth Employees’ Compensation Act 1930-1967.

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