Seamen's Compensation Regulations 1918 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1919. No. 139.

REGULATION UNDER THE SEAMEN’S COMPENSATION ACT 1911.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Seamen’s Compensation Act 1911, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this fourth day of June, 1919.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. MASSY GREENE,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

 

Amendment of the Seamen’s Compensation Regulations 1918.

(Statutory Rules 1918, No. 163.)

Regulation 56 (5) of the Seamen’s Compensation Regulations 1918 is repealed, and the following substituted therefor:—

56. (5) If all questions as to who are dependants, and the amount payable to each dependant have been settled by the proceedings of a County Court or by agreement or arbitration before payment to the prescribed authority, the sum paid shall be allotted between the dependants in accordance with the order of the County Court or the agreement or the award and the amount allotted to each dependant shall be invested applied or otherwise dealt with by the Comptroller-General for the benefit of the persons entitled thereto as the Comptroller-General thinks fit or as a County Court may direct either at the time such questions are settled or at any subsequent time, or as the arbitrator may in his award provide.

 

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