The new Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Regulation 2025 commenced on Monday.
The 2025 regulation was created after a sunset review of the expiring 2014 regulation.
Differences to the 2014 regulation are largely minor and technical and intended to clarify the intent of provisions, update language and remove obsolete provisions.
More substantial changes include changes to the costs provisions for claims for damages (ss 193-196). In response to the Court of Appeal decision in Anderson v Pickles Auctions Pty Ltd (2023) 17 QR 134, the new regulation excludes recovery of counsel’s fees, returning to the interpretation in Anderson v Pickles Auctions Pty Ltd [2022] QSC 265.
View the new regulation here.
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