Seamen's Compensation Regulations 1926 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1927. No. 71.

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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 the 8th day of July 1927.

(Sgd.) STONEHAVEN

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

 

Amendment of the Seamen’s Compensation Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1926, No. 135, as amended to this date.)

Regulation 7aof the Seamen’s Compensation Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—

“(11.) Where an application for arbitration is made under this regulation and any claimant for compensation or other person who is competent and qualified to give evidence relating to the claim resides in some other part of His Majesty’s Dominions than that in which the Court hearing the application has jurisdiction, evidence may, by leave of the Court be given by affidavit made by the claimant or other person in the part of His Majesty’s Dominions in which the claimant or person resides, and the evidence so given shall be admissible in the hearing before that Court subject to such exceptions as the Court determines.

“(12.) An affidavit made under the last preceding sub-regulation shall be sworn before a Notary Public or Commissioner of the Supreme Court of the State in which the application is made, and no proof shall be required of the signature and seal of the Notary or of the signature of the Commissioner.”

 

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