{"id":"F2007L03807","name":"Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Definition of Employee) Notice 2007 (3)","slug":"safety-rehabilitation-and-compensation-definition-of-employee-notice-2007-3","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":70298,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2007L03807-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-02","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Definition of Employee) Notice 2007 (3)","content":"![](image.001.png)\n\nSafety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Definition of Employee) Notice 2007 (3)\n\nNotice No. 3 of 2007.\n\nI, JOE HOCKEY, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, make this Notice under subsection 5(6) of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988.\n\nDated 19 September 2007\n\nJoe Hockey\n\nMinister for Employment and Workplace Relations\n\n1 Name of Notice\n\nThis Notice is the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Definition of Employee) Notice 2007 (3).\n\n2 Commencement\n\nThis Notice commences on the day after it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.\n\n3 Declaration\n\nFor subsection 5(6) of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1998, I declare that:\n\n(a) the class of persons specified in Column 1 of the schedule, being persons who engage in the activities or perform acts specified in column 2 of the Schedule, at the request or direction, or for the benefit, of the Commonwealth, shall be taken to be employed by the Commonwealth, and\n\n(b) the employment of such persons shall, for those purposes, be taken to be constituted by the performance by such persons of the acts or activities referred to in the Schedule.\n\nNote The persons are engaged in activities or perform acts at the request or direction, or for the benefit, of the Commonwealth.\n\n  \n\nSchedule Wildfire expert response team\n\n| Class of persons                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | Class of Acts                                                                                                                          |\n| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| Members of the wildfire expert response team, appointed under the authority of the Attorney General, who are operating at the direction of Emergency Management Australia, a division of the Attorney General’s Department, in response to the wildfires which burnt throughout Greece from August 2007. | All acts performed in connection with responding to the wildfires, and their aftermath, that burnt throughout Greece from August 2007. |","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"This Notice expands the statutory coverage of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act by declaring a specified class of wildfire response personnel to be employees of the Commonwealth for acts connected to the Greece wildfires (Declaration, s3; Schedule). It therefore changes the Act's coverage for that cohort by treating their response activities as constituting employment for SR&C purposes."},"complexity_factors":["Targeted, event‑specific scope limited to a named response team and the Greece wildfires (Schedule) reduces breadth but requires factual proof of membership and activity.","Instrument operates by reference to subsection 5(6) of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act, so interpretation depends on the parent Act's definitions and rules (Declaration, s3).","Ministerial power to declare classes (s3) concentrates discretion in the executive and creates a one‑off legal status change for the named cohort.","Phrases such as \"at the request or direction, or for the benefit, of the Commonwealth\" are open to interpretation and may generate disputes about when coverage applies (s3, Note).","Extra‑territorial application — activities occurring in Greece — raises administrative and jurisdictional questions for applying Australian SR&C rules abroad (Schedule).","Commencement is immediate (day after registration), which may produce timing issues for claim handling and awareness among affected persons (Commencement, s2).","Effect shifts statutory employer obligations and likely financial responsibility to the Commonwealth for covered acts, altering incentives and administrative burden for affected responders (Declaration, s3)."],"plain_english_summary":"This Notice declares that members of a wildfire expert response team, appointed under the Attorney‑General and operating under Emergency Management Australia in response to the August 2007 Greece wildfires, are to be treated as employees of the Commonwealth for the purposes of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act. That designation makes the Commonwealth the employer for claims arising from those response activities and was made by the Minister under subsection 5(6)."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This notice serves exactly its original purpose: extending workers' compensation coverage to a specific emergency response team deployed to a specific international disaster. It has not grown beyond this narrow, time-bound scope."},"complexity_factors":["Very short document (less than 1 page)","Only 2 defined classes (the people covered and the acts covered)","No cross-references to other legislation beyond the enabling provision (subsection 5(6))","Single purpose: extending coverage to one specific group for one specific event","No conditional logic or exceptions","Simple tabular format for the Schedule"],"plain_english_summary":"This notice temporarily extends Commonwealth workers’ compensation under the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act to the wildfire expert response team appointed by the Attorney‑General and operating under Emergency Management Australia who were deployed to fight the August 2007 Greek wildfires. By deeming them Commonwealth employees and their overseas service as employment, it ensures they receive the same medical, rehabilitation and compensation entitlements if injured or killed on that deployment."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"Unauthenticated. Configure AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY or use a provider module. 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