Western Australia

Workers Compensation and Injury Management Act 2023

Workers Compensation and Injury Management Conciliation Rules 2024

Western Australia

Workers Compensation and Injury Management Conciliation Rules 2024

Contents

Part 1 — Preliminary

1.Citation1

2.Commencement1

3.Terms used1

4.References to conciliator and dispute2

Notes

Compilation table3

Uncommenced provisions table3

Defined terms

Workers Compensation and Injury Management Act 2023

Workers Compensation and Injury Management Conciliation Rules 2024

Part 1 — Preliminary

1.Citation

These rules are the Workers Compensation and Injury Management Conciliation Rules 2024.

2.Commencement

These rules come into operation as follows —

(a)Part 1 — on the day on which these rules are published on the WA legislation website;

(b)the rest of the rules — on 1 July 2024.

3.Terms used

In these rules —

application for conciliation means an application for conciliation made under section 311 of the Act;

certificate of outcome has the meaning given in section 324 of the Act;

conciliation conference means a conciliation conference conducted by a conciliator under section 317 of the Act;

Director approved form means a form approved by the Director under rule 31;

give has the meaning given in section 497(1) of the Act;

lodge has the meaning given in section 497(1) of the Act;

representative means a person specified in section 365(2) of the Act who is appointed by a party to the dispute;

working day means a day on which the office of the Conciliation Service is open for business that is not a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday throughout the State.

4.References to conciliator and dispute

In these rules —

(a)a reference to a conciliator is a reference to a conciliator who has been allocated a dispute under section 314 of the Act; and

(b)a reference to a dispute is a reference to a dispute that is the subject of an application for conciliation.

[Parts 2-8 have not come into operation.]

Notes

This is a compilation of the Workers Compensation and Injury Management Conciliation Rules 2024. For provisions that have come into operation see the compilation table. For provisions that have not yet come into operation see the uncommenced provisions table.

Compilation table

Citation	Published	Commencement
Workers Compensation and Injury Management Conciliation Rules 2024 Pt. 1	SL 2024/79 22 May 2024	22 May 2024 (see r. 2(a))

Uncommenced provisions table

To view the text of the uncommenced provisions see Subsidiary legislation as made on the WA Legislation website.

Citation	Published	Commencement
Workers Compensation and Injury Management Conciliation Rules 2024 (other than Pt. 1)	SL 2024/79 22 May 2024	1 Jul 2024 (see r. 2(b))

Defined terms

[This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they are defined. The list is not part of the law.]

Defined termProvision(s)

application for conciliation3

certificate of outcome3

conciliation conference3

conciliator4

Director approved form3

dispute4

give3

lodge3

representative3

working day3

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By Authority: GEOFF O. LAWN, Government Printer