Transport Accident (Prescribed Severe Injury) Regulations 2003

Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary Documents i Transport Accident (Prescribed Severe Injury) Regulations 2003 S.R. No. 156/2003 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Regulation Page 1. Objectives 1 2. Authorising provision 1 3. Severe injury 2 5A. Severe Injury 2 4. Regulation 13 revoked 3 ═══════════════ ENDNOTES 4 -- 1 of 5 -- Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary Documents 1 STATUTORY RULES 2003 S.R. No. 156/2003 Transport Accident Act 1986 Transport Accident (Prescribed Severe Injury) Regulations 2003 The Governor in Council makes the following Regulations: Dated: 16 December 2003 Responsible Minister: ROB HULLS Minister for WorkCover SUDHA KASYNATHAN Acting Clerk of the Executive Council 1. Objectives The objectives of these Regulations are— (a) to prescribe certain injuries to be a severe injury under section 60(2B) of the Transport Accident Act 1986; (b) to revoke regulation 13 of the Transport Accident Regulations 1996. 2. Authorising provision These Regulations are made under section 132 of the Transport Accident Act 1986. -- 2 of 5 -- Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary Documents S.R. No. 156/2003 Transport Accident (Prescribed Severe Injury) Regulations 2003 2 3. Severe injury After regulation 5 of the Transport Accident Regulations 1996 1 insert— '5A. Severe Injury (1) For the purposes of section 60(2B) of the Act, the following injuries are a severe injury— (a) permanent blindness; (b) burns to not more than 50 percent of the body that cause severe disfigurement and comprise of full thickness burns— (i) to the head, neck, arms or lower legs; or (ii) that result in severe difficulties in performing mobility, communication and self care tasks; (c) a brachial plexus injury that results in the loss of the use of a limb. (2) In this regulation "permanent blindness" means— (a) a field of vision that is constricted to 10 degrees or less of arc from central fixation in the better eye irrespective of corrected visual acuity; or (b) a corrected visual acuity of less than 6/60 of the Snellen Scale in both eyes; or (c) a combination of visual defects resulting in the same degree of visual loss as referred to in paragraph (a) or (b).'. r. 3 -- 3 of 5 -- Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary Documents S.R. No. 156/2003 Transport Accident (Prescribed Severe Injury) Regulations 2003 3 4. Regulation 13 revoked Regulation 13 of the Transport Accident Regulations 1996 is revoked. ═══════════════ r. 4 -- 4 of 5 -- Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary Documents S.R. No. 156/2003 Transport Accident (Prescribed Severe Injury) Regulations 2003 4 ENDNOTES 1 Reg. 3: S.R. No. 164/1996 as amended by S.R. Nos 64/1999, 106/2000 and 31/2003. Endnotes -- 5 of 5 --