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Workmen’s Compensation Act

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Arrangement of Sections

1. Meaning of workman

2. Application to workmen employed by the Government

3. Employers’ liability for compensation for death or incapacity resulting from accident

4. Compensation in fatal cases

5. Compensation in the case of permanent total incapacity

6. Additional compensation

7. Compensation in the case of permanent partial incapacity

8. Medical assessors

9. Compensation in the case of temporary incapacity

10. Method of calculating earnings. I I. Persons entitled to compensation

11. Persons entitled to compensation

12. Distribution of compensation

13. Requirement as to notice of accident and application for compensation

14. Employer to report the death of a workman

15. Medical examination and treatment

16. Agreement as to compensation

17. Determination of claims

18. Review

19. Limitation of power of employer to end or decrease payments

20. Jurisdiction of the court

21. Power of the court to submit questions of law

22. Appeals

23. Liability in case of workman employed by contractors

24. Remedies against both employer and stranger

25. Proceedings independently of the Act

26. Provision in the event of a company going into liquidation

27. Contracting out

28. Compensation not to be assigned, charged or attached

29. Medical expenses

30. Decisions of court in regard to treatment and medical reports

31. Fees for medical aid to be prescribed

32. Occupational diseases

33. Power to require existence of occupational disease to be certified by medical board

34. Special provisions as regards byssinosis

35. Medical boards

36. Returns by employer and insurer

37. Offences by bodies corporate and unincorporated

38. Power to make rules of court and regulations

39. Rules as to transfer of funds

40. Compulsory insurance

41. Interpretation

42. Short title

An Act to make provisions for the payment of compensation to workmen for inju- ries suffered in the course of their employment.

[1987 No. l7.]

1. Meaning of workman

[ Commencement.]

[12 th June, 1987]

(1) Subject to this section and to section 2 of this Act, a person shall be deemed to be a workman if either before or after the commencement of this Act he has entered into or is working under a contract of service or apprenticeship with an employer, whether by way of manual labour, clerical work or otherwise, and whether the contract is expressed or implied, is oral or in writing.

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