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before the commencement of this Division, being a notice or claim in respect of an injury, loss or damage suffered by, or in respect of the death of, an employee of the authority, continues to have effect, after that commencement, as if it had been given or made to the authority under the Principal Act as amended by Division 2 of this Part.

Previous acts, payments etc.

32.(1) Anything done by an administering authority in respect of its liability to pay compensation, or to make any other payments, under the Principal Act is taken, after the commencement of this Division, to have been done by the authority in respect of its liability to pay that compensation or make that payment under the Principal Act as amended by Division 2 of this Part.

(2) A payment made by an administering authority under the Principal Act before the commencement of this Division, being a payment made by the authority in respect of its liability for an injury, loss or damage suffered by, or for the death of, an employee of the authority, is taken, after that commencement, to have been made by the authority in respect of its liability to make such a payment for that injury, loss, damage or death under the Principal Act as amended by Division 2 of this Part.

(3) A payment referred to in subsection (2) that had effect as a redemption of a liability of the authority under the Principal Act has effect after the commencement of this Division as a redemption of the corresponding liability of the authority under the Principal Act as amended by Division 2 of this Part.

Pending proceedings

33. Any proceedings to which an administering authority was a party, being proceedings relating to a matter arising under the Principal Act (including proceedings under Part VI of that Act) in respect of an

injury, loss or damage suffered by, or in respect of the death of, an employee of the authority, that had been brought but not completed before the commencement of this Division, may be continued after that commencement and, subject to Part VIIIA of the Principal Act as amended by Division 2 of this Part, if the proceedings are so continued, the authority continues to be a party to those proceedings.

Division 4—Other amendments

Compensation for injuries resulting in incapacity

34. Section 19 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (4)(f) "the Commission's" and substituting "Comcare's".

Cancelled determinations not to affect certain payments of compensation

35. Section 32 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (1) "the Commission" and substituting "Comcare".

Confirmation of estimates

36. Section 96FA of the Principal Act is amended by