Workers' Compensation Act Amendment Act 1925 (WA)

No. 14.] Workers' Compensation. [1925.

WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

16 °	GEO. V., No. XIV.
No. 14 of 1925.

AN ACT to amend Section Four of the Workers'

Compensation Act, 1912.

[Assented to 4th November, 1925.]

Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, byand with the advice and consent of the Legislative

this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of

the same, as follows :—

Short title. 1.

This Act may be cited as the Workers' Compensation Act Amendment Act, 1925.

term " worker." 2.

Amendment of

The interpretation of the word " worker " in section four of the Workers' Compensation Act, 1912, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following words :—" The word `worker' does not include any person employed under articles of agreement as a ' pearl fisher' within the meaning of those words in the Pearling Act, 1912, that is to say, ' for the purpose of pearling on board of a ship,' and not otherwise employed, and introduced into the State by permission of the Government of the Com- monwealth, subject to the obligation of the employer to return such person to the place whence he came on the cessation of his employment."