Workmen’s Compensation Act 1956 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY.

No. 1 of 1956.

AN ORDINANCE

To amend the Workmen's Compensation

Ordinance 1951-1954.

BE it ordained by the Governor-General in and over the Com- Executive Council, in pursuance of the powers conferred by the

monwealth of Australia, with the advice of the Federal

Heat of Government (Administration) Act 1910-1947, as follows:—

1. — (1.) This Ordinance may be cited as the Workmen's Com- short title . • /-% !• i nr r * and citation.

pcnsatton Ordinance 195b.

(2.) The Workmen's Compensation Ordinance 1951-1954,1 as amended by this Ordinance, may be cited as the Workmen's Com- pensation Ordinance 1951-1956.

2. Section six of the Workmen's Compensation Ordinance interpretation

1951-1954 is amended by inserting after sub-section (3.) the

following sub-section:—

" (3A.) Where—

(a) a person (in this sub-section referred to as ' the prin- cipal ') in the course of or for the purpose of his trade or business enters into a contract with any other person or persons (in this sub-section referred to as ' the contractor') under which the contractor agrees—

5509/55.—PRICE 3D.

(i) to fell trees or cut firewood and deliver the

felled trees or firewood to the principal;

(ii) to fell trees or cut scrub on land in the occupa-

tion of the principal; or

(iii) to clear stumps or logs from land in the

occupation of the principal; and

(b) the contractor does not either sublet the contract or employ workers, or although employing workers, actually performs any part of the work himself,

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette, on 1st March, 1950.

f Ordinance No. 2, 1951, as amended by No. 4, 1052 ; and No. 12, 1954.

the contractor shall for the purpose of this Ordinance, be deemed to be working under a contract of service with an employer and the principal shall be deemed to be the employer of the contractor.".

Dated this seventh day of February, 1956.

W. J. SLIM

Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

ALLEN PAIRHALL

Minister of State for the Interior.

By Authority: A. J. ARTHUR, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.