Workers' Compensation Act Amendment Act 1923 (WA)

No. 9.] Workers' Compensation. [1923..

WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

13° GEO. V., No. XXXII.

No. 9 of 1923.

AN ACT to amend the Workers' Compensation Act, 1912.

[Assented to 22nd February, 1923.]

B E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, byCouncil and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, inand with the advice and consent of the Legislative

this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of

the same, as follows:-

(1.) This Act may be cited as the Workers' Compen- sation Act Amendment Act, 1923, and shall be read as one with the Workers' Compensation Act, 1912, hereinafter re- ferred to as the principal Act.

Short title. 1.

(2.) This Act shall come into operation on a -day to be

fixed by proclamation.

Section four of the principal Act is amended by adding to the interpretation of the term "worker" the -following words, namely:—"The term 'worker,' save as aforesaid, also includes

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Section 4.

"(a) any person to whose service any industrial award

or agreement applies;

"(b) any person working, in connection with the felling, hewing, hauling, carriage, sawing, or milling of timber for another person who is engaged in the timber industry, for the purposes of such other person's trade or business under a contract for service, the remuneration of the person so work- ing being in substance a return for manual labour bestowed by him upon the work in which he is en- gaged;

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(C) any person engaged in manual labour under the Con- troller of Group Settlements under a scheme for group settlement of Crown lands: Provided that insurance against liability under this Act shall be charged to the cost of the work done under the scheme, and apportioned by the Controller between the several blocks comprised within each group."

The said section is further amended by adding a para-

graph, as follows:—

The word "employer" shall extend to any person for

or by whom any worker, as defined in paragraph (a) or

(b) of the definition of "worker," works or is engaged.

3. All copies of the principal Act hereafter printed by the Manner of showing.

Government Printer shall be printed as amended by this Act,

amendments.

-under the supervision of the Clerk of the Parliaments, and a

reference to this Act shall be made in the margin thereof.