WORKERS' COMPENSATION (AMENDMENT)
ACT.
[Assented to, 27th June, 1951.] Act No. 20, 1951.
An Act to increase the amounts payable by way of compensation under the Workers' Com- pensation Act, 1926, and the Workers' Compensation (Silicosis) Act, 1942, as amended by subsequent Acts; for this and other purposes to amend the said Acts; and for purposes connected therewith.
t )E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, •U by and with the advice and consent of the Legis lative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the "Workers ' Com pensation (Amendment) Act, 1951."
(2) The Workers ' Compensation Act, 1926, as amended by subsequent Acts, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(3) The Principal Act as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Workers ' Compensation Act, 1926- 1951.
2. The Principal Act is amended—
(a) (i) by inserting in subsection one of section six in the definition of "Dependants" after the words " t o the worker" the words "and also includes a woman so dependent who for not less than three years immediately before the worker's death, although not legally married to him, lived with him as his wife on a permanent and bona fide domestic bas is" ;
(ii) by inserting in the same subsection next after the definition of "Place of Employ ment" the following new definition:—
"Prescr ibed" means prescribed by this Act or by the regulations made there under. (iii) by inserting in paragraph (a) of subsection five of the same section after the word "worke r " where firstly occurring the words " o r although either subletting part of the work or employing a worker actually per forms some part of the work himself'';
(iv) by omitting from paragraph (b) of the same subsection the words "and receives injury
while
while engaged in or about the work of cutting, delivering or supplying the said timber or any part thereof";
(v) by inserting next after subsection (14A) of the same section the following new sub sections :—
(14B) Where any person is ordinarily engaged in any employment in connection with which persons customarily attend certain prearranged places (in this Act called "places of pick-up") at which
' employers select and engage persons for employment, any such person shall be deemed, while in attendance at any such place of pick-up before being so selected, or while travelling thereto from his place of abode, to be a worker employed by the employer who last employed him in his customary employment.
(14c) A person engaged for fee or reward to take part—
(a)
as a boxer or wrestler in any public boxing or wrestling contest in a stadium or place to which the public is admitted on payment of a fee o r charge; or
(b)
as an entertainer in any public performance in a place of…