Workers' Compensation Act Amendment Act 1927 (WA)

No. 341 Workers' Compensation. [1927.

WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

18° GEO. V., No. XXXIV.

No. 34 of 1927.

AN ACT to amend Section seven of the Workers' Com- pensation Act, 19124924, and paragraph (c) in the proviso to Section one of the First Schedule thereto, and Section fourteen of the said Schedule.

[Assented to 28th December, 19271

Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, inBE 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 MM.	1. This Act may be cited as the Workers' Compensation Act Amendment Act, 1927, and shall be read as one with
the Workers' Compensation Act, 1912-1924 (as reprinted in the Appendix to the 1924 Sessional Volume of the Statutes), hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

Amendment of sec. 2. Subsection nine of section seven of the principal

7, ss (9)

Act is hereby amended by omitting the words " medical referee " and inserting in place thereof " board consist- ing of one medical practitioner to be appointed by the Governor, who shall be Chairman, and two medical prac- titioners registered under the Medical Act, 1894, one to be nominated by the employer and the other by the worker ; and the decision of the board, or any two mem- bers thereof, shall be final."

1927.] Workers' Compensation. [No. 34.

3.    (1) The words " hospital charges for treatment and =tit=

maintenance not exceeding ten shillings and sixpence per day " are hereby inserted after the words " to a hospital or other place for treatment " in lines , four and five of paragraph (c) of the proviso to section one of the First Schedule to the principal Act. Paragraph (c) of the proviso to section one of the First Schedule to the principal Act is amended by the insertion after the word " of," in line two, the words " medicines, medical or surgical re- quisites, and."

(2) A paragraph is hereby added to section fourteen

of the First Schedule to the principal Act, as follows :—

(f) Provided that where a medical certificate pro- duced under the provisions of subsection eight of section seven of this Act is disputed by the employer, the reference shall be to a board of three members as prescribed by subsection nine of that section.

4.    A subsection is hereby added to section seven of the

principal Act as follows :-

(13) Subject to the provisions of this section, if a worker, disabled by disease from earning full wages at the work at which he was employed, is f mnd to be suffering from a disease to which this section does not apply, and also from silicosis, pneumoconiosis, or miners' phthisis, and his disability is partially caused

, by such industrial disease due to the nature of his employment, the worker shall be entitled to a pro- portionate part of the compensation payable under this section apportioned to the degree to which such disability is caused by silicosis, pneumoconiosis, or miners' phthisis as the case may be.