Accident amendment scrapped
PA Wellington The Accident Compensation Amendment (No. 2) Bill will be scrapped in favour of a complete. rewriting of the original legislation. Parliament’s Labour and Education Select Committee decided yesterday to recommend that ~the House not proceed with the bill. The decision was made after, the committee heard a report on the bill from the Accident Compensation Corporation. The bill h.as a number of clauses making' changes to the original!, legislation; including one which reduced the amount compensation payable from 100 per cent of normal wages, to 80 per cent. The committee’s chairman, Mr-.R. L. Bell (Nat., Gis,;.t)orrie). said that the Minister of Labour (Mr Bolger), had told the committee that work on a new, bill was well advanced. This would be a “total rewrite” of the'original act, he said. Mr. Bell said the new bill would be introduced in Parliament (“in due course.’’•
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