Workmen's Compensation (Broken Hill) (Amendment) Act 1929 (NSW)

WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION

(BROKEN HILL) (AMENDMENT)

ACT.

Act No. 43, 1929.

An Act to provide for compensation for certain persons out of the Fund established under the Workmen's Compensation (Broken Hill) Act, 1920-1929; to amend that Act; to validate certain, payments by the joint committee; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 23rd December, 1929.]

BE it enacted by the King's Must Excellent Majesty, lative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South by and with the advice and consent of the Legis­

Wales in Parliament assembly 1, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

1 . This Act may be cited as the " Workmen's Com­ pensation (Broken Hill) (Amendment) Act, 1929," and shall be construed with the Workmen's Compensation (Broken Hill) Act, 1920-1929.

2 . (1) The persons named in the list of eleven cases filed with the Workers' Compensation Commission as certified by the joint committee to be affected by the judgment of the Supreme Court (In Equity) in re Attorney-General v. Atkinson, the eighteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, shall be deemed to have been mine-workers on the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen. Such persons or their dependents shall respectively be deemed to have been entitled to such payments as have been made to them from the fund, and, subject to the provisions

provisions of the Workmen's Compensation (Broken Hill) Act, 1920-1929, shall be deemed to be entitled to continue to receive compensation from the fund as on and from the fourteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, in accordance with the award of the joint committee made iu each case.

(2) Any payments made by the joint committee and any contribution made to the fund to or in respect of the persons named in the said list prior to the passing of this Act shall be deemed to have been made in accordance with the provisions of the Workmen's Com- pensation (Broken Hill) Act, 1920-1929.