Western Australian Numbered Acts

WORKERS COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 2023 (NO. 21 OF 2023) - SECT 579

579 .         Costs determination

        (1)         The Costs Committee established by section 269 of the former Act may, before commencement day, make a costs determination for the purposes of Part 6 Division 9 Subdivision 3.

        (2)         The costs determination is taken to be a costs determination made under section 405(1).

        (3)         Sections 406 and  407 (except section 407(3)) apply in relation to the making, approval and effect of the costs determination as if —

            (a)         those sections had come into operation on the day after the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent; and

            (b)         references in those sections to the Costs Committee were references to the Costs Committee established by section 269 of the former Act.

        (4)         An approved costs determination published in the Gazette under section 407 as applied by subsection (3) of this section before commencement day takes effect on and from commencement day.

        (5)         If an approved costs determination is not in effect on commencement day under section 407 as applied by subsections (3) and (4) of this section, the costs determination in effect immediately before commencement day under section 273 of the former Act is taken to be an approved costs determination for the purposes of Part 6 Division 9 Subdivision 3 on and from commencement day until an approved costs determination takes effect under section 407.

        (6)         This Act and the operation of the Interpretation Act 1984 section 25 are modified so far as is necessary to give effect to this section.