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Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Definition of Employee) Notice 2006 (2)

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This Notice declares that members of Australian Medical Assistance Teams who, at the Attorney‑General’s request and under Emergency Management Australia, provided medical assistance in response to the 27 May 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake are to be treated as employees of the Commonwealth for the purposes of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act (subsection 5(6); s3, Schedule). Mechanically, that makes the Commonwealth responsible under the Act for compensation and rehabilitation arising from those acts and changes the legal status of those responders.

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Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Definition of Employee) Notice 2006 (2)

Notice No. 2 of 2006.

I, KEVIN JAMES ANDREWS, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, make this Notice under subsection 5(6) of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988.

Dated 14 June 2006

Kevin Andrews

Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations

1 Name of Notice

This Notice is the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Definition of Employee) Notice 2006 (2).

2 Commencement

This Notice commences on registration on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.

3 Declaration

For subsection 5(6) of the Safety Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1998 I declare that:

(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 of the Attorney-General, shall be taken to be employed by the Commonwealth, and

(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.

Schedule Australian Medical Assistance Team(s)

Class of persons	Class of Acts
Members of the Australian Medical Assistance Team(s), 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 an earthquake that struck the Yogyakarta region of Indonesia on 27 May 2006.	All acts of medical assistance and other associated activities in connection with responding to the earthquake that struck the Yogyakarta region of Indonesia on 27 May 2006.

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1 Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Definition of Employee) Notice 2006 (2)

Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Definition of Employee) Notice 2006 (2)

Notice No. 2 of 2006.

I, KEVIN JAMES ANDREWS, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, make this Notice under subsection 5(6) of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988.

Dated 14 June 2006

Kevin Andrews

Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations

1 Name of Notice

This Notice is the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Definition of Employee) Notice 2006 (2).

2 Commencement

This Notice commences on registration on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.

3 Declaration

For subsection 5(6) of the Safety Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1998 I declare that:

(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.

Schedule Australian Medical Assistance Team(s)

Class of persons	Class of Acts
Members of the Australian Medical Assistance Team(s), 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 an earthquake that struck the Yogyakarta region of Indonesia on 27 May 2006.	All acts of medical assistance and other associated activities in connection with responding to the earthquake that struck the Yogyakarta region of Indonesia on 27 May 2006.