Section 31 - Sporting Injuries Insurance Act 1978 - Rules

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(1) The Authority may make rules, not inconsistent with this Act or the regulations, for or with respect to any matter that by this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed by rules or that is necessary or convenient to be prescribed by rules for carrying out or giving effect to this Act and, in particular, for or with respect to—

(a) specifying, or providing for the determination of, the authorised activities of prescribed organisations,

(b) describing, or providing for the determination of, the persons who are to be treated as registered participants of sporting organisations, enrolled student participants of schools or enrolled participants of the Department,

(c) the keeping of registers of persons participating in any sporting or athletic activities, or recreational activities conducted or promoted by the Department, and the furnishing to the Authority or to any other person or association of copies—

(i) of any such register, and

(ii) of estimates of the numbers of persons who will participate in those activities,

(d) the giving of notice of injuries suffered in the course of sporting or athletic activities, or recreational activities conducted or promoted by the Department, and the keeping of records of any such injuries,

(e) the furnishing to the Authority of—

(i) returns and other information relating to any sporting or athletic activities, or recreational activities conducted or promoted by the Department, and injuries suffered in, or in connection with, any such activities, and

(ii) particulars of any actual or intended change in the composition or name of a sporting organisation, and

(f) the making of applications for benefits under this Act and the reimbursement (or non-reimbursement) by the Authority of any specific costs incurred in connection with the due making of those applications.

(1A) A rule may be made under section 31 (1) (f) for or with respect to the reimbursement by the Authority of any costs incurred in connection with an application duly made before the commencement of this subsection and not finally determined on that commencement.

(2) A provision of a rule may—