The eighth edition of this book is an indispensable reference for all those Australians closely involved in advising and dealing with the compensation and rehabilitation of employees covered by the Commonwealth Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988: human resource managers; lawyers; claims and review staff in Comcare and other determining authorities; the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission; licensees; union organisers; Tribunal members; and individual employees of the Commonwealth, its statutory authorities, and licensees under the scheme.

The 8th edition includes:

• the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 reproduced in full, consolidated as at 1 November 2007;
• comprehensive annotations, organised on a section by section basis, covering all significant decisions of the High Court, the Federal Court, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, and the State Supreme Courts to 1 October 2007;
• a table of cases (more than 900 cases cited), table of statutes, and index;
• a practitioner's guide by Allan Anforth, a Canberra barrister with extensive experience in the compensation jurisdiction;
• annotations that include full details of Instruments gazetted under the Act;
• annotations that include cases on the Seafarers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1992 applicable to the SRC Act; and
• consideration of military compensation arrangements, including the Military Compensation Scheme.

This edition also includes consideration of issues which are the subject of extensive litigation under the Act, including:

• permanent impairment claims and interpretation of the Approved Guide (Canute v Comcare (2006));
• licensees under the Act (Attorney-General (Victoria) v Andrews (2007));
• the causal test for diseases (Comcare v Sahu-Khan (2007) and new s 5B;
• the scope of Tribunal review (Telstra Corporation Limited v Hannaford (2006), Abrahams v Comcare (2006);
• the inclusion of overtime in normal weekly earnings (Telstra Corporation Limited v Peisley (2006));
• costs in the Tribunal, including Calderbank offers (Perry v Comcare (2006)); and
• compensation for permanent impairment arising from an injury suffered before 1 December 1988.

Table of Contents

Editorial Contributions
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Currency of Legislation and Annotations
Key to Case Citation
Abbreviations and Acronyms
List of Tables
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes

Introduction

Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
PART I - Preliminary
PART II - Compensation
PART III - Rehabilitation
PART IV - Liabilities Arising Apart from this Act
PART V - Claims for Compensation
PART VI - Reconsideration and Review of Determinations
PART VII - Administration and Finance
PART VIII - Licences to Enable Commonwealth Authorities and Certain Corporations to Accept Liabillity for, and/or Manage, Claims
PART IX - Miscellaneous
PART X - Transitional Provisions, Consequential Amendments and Repeals
PART XI - Operation of this Act in Relation to Certain Defence-Related Injuries and Deaths etc
SCHEDULE
CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Regulations 2002

Practitioner's Guide

APPENDIX 1: Legislative History - Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988
APPENDIX 2 - Notices of Declaration - Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988
APPENDIX 3 - Notices of Declaration - "Commonwealth Authority" - s 4(1)
APPENDIX 4 - Notices of Declaration under s 5(6)
APPENDIX 5 - Declarations under s 7(1)
APPENDIX 6 - Notices of Declaration - Australian Capital Territory
APPENDIX 7 - Corporations Licensed Under Part VIII of the Act
APPENDIX 8 - Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Directions 2002
APPENDIX 9 - Defence Determination 2000/1
APPENDIX 10 - SRC Act Reviewable Decision Protocol
APPENDIX 11 - Internet Sites Relevant to Commonwealth Compensation

Index