Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (Fair Protection for Firefighters) Bill 2011

Type: Private
Sponsor(s): BANDT, Adam, MP
BROADBENT, Russell, MP
VAMVAKINOU, Maria, MP
Originating house: House of Representatives
Status: Act
Parliament no: 43

Summary

Amends the: Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 to create a legal presumption that, if a firefighter has been employed for a certain period before being diagnosed with one of seven primary site cancers, the employment is taken to have been the dominant cause of the contraction of the cancer.

Progress

House of Representatives
Introduced and read a first time	04 Jul 2011
Second reading moved	19 Sep 2011
Second reading debate	19 Sep 2011
Second reading agreed to	13 Oct 2011
Referred to Main Committee	31 Oct 2011
Consideration in detail debate	31 Oct 2011
Consideration in detail debate Amendment details: 11 Private Member's agreed to	03 Nov 2011
Third reading agreed to	03 Nov 2011

Senate
Introduced and read a first time	10 Nov 2011
Second reading moved	10 Nov 2011
Second reading debate	24 Nov 2011
Second reading agreed to	24 Nov 2011
Third reading agreed to	24 Nov 2011


Text of bill as passed both Houses	24 Nov 2011
Assent Act no.: 182 Year: 2011	06 Dec 2011

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BANDT, Adam, MP

Non-Government [sheet CA214]
VAMVAKINOU, Maria, MP

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Notes

Referred to Committee (05/07/2011): Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Legislation Committee
Committee report (15/09/2011)
An electronic version of this Act is available on the Federal Register of Legislation (www.legislation.gov.au)

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