The Acts of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia Passed in the Session of ..., 10. köide

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Printed and published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by R.S. Brain, Government Printer for the State of Victoria, 1912

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Page 37 - In fixing the amount of the weekly payment, regard shall be had to any payment, allowance, or benefit which the workman may receive from the employer during the period of his incapacity...
Page 32 - ... which he would have been liable to pay if that workman had been immediately employed by him, and where compensation is claimed from or proceedings are taken against the principal, then, in the application of this act...
Page 147 - ... whereby he becomes a subject or citizen or entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or citizen of a foreign power; 3.
Page 66 - Any contract which if made between private persons would be by law required to be in writing, and signed by the parties to be charged therewith, may be made on behalf of the company in writing signed by any person acting under the express or implied authority of the company...
Page 33 - Where the compensation is a weekly payment, the amount due in respect thereof shall, for the purposes of this provision, be taken to be the amount of the lump sum for which the weekly payment could, if redeemable, be redeemed if the employer made an application for that purpose under the First Schedule to this Act.
Page 66 - And all contracts made according to the provisions herein contained shall be effectual in law, and shall be binding upon the company and their successors, and all other parties thereto, their heirs, executors, or administrators, as the case may be...
Page 37 - Where the workman had entered into concurrent contracts of service with two or more employers under which he worked at one time for one such employer and at another time for another such employer, his "earnings...
Page 36 - The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters which, by this Act, are required or permitted to be prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed, for carrying out or giving effect to this Act...
Page 30 - Provided that : — (a) The employer shall not be liable under this Act in respect of any injury which does not disable the workman for a period of at least two weeks from earning full wages at the work at which he was employed...
Page 37 - ... shall be computed in such manner as is best calculated to give the rate per week at which the workman was being remunerated. Provided that where by reason of the shortness of the time during which the workman has been in the employment of his employer, or the casual nature of the employment, or the terms of the employment, it is impracticable at the date of the accident to compute the rate of remuneration...

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