Workmens Compensation Act, 1923

From: 1923-03-05 - To: 0000-00-00 An Act to provide for the payment by certain classes of employers to their workmen of compensation for injury by accident Whereas it is expedient to provide for the payment by certain classes of employers to their workmen of compensation for injury by accident; It is hereby enacted as follows:- CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY 1. Short title, extent and commencement.– (1) This Act may be called the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923. [2][(2) It extends to the whole of [3][the Punjab].] (3) It shall come into force on the first day of July 1924. 2. Definition.– (1) In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,– (a) “adult” and “minor” mean respectively a person who is not and a person who is under the age of fifteen years; (b) “Commissioner” means a Commissioner for Workmen’s Compensation appointed under Section 20; (c) “compensation” means compensation as provided for by this Act; [4][(d) “dependent” means any of the following relatives of a deceased workman, namely– (i) a [5][widow], minor legitimate son, and unmarried legitimate daughter, or a widowed mother; and (ii) if wholly or in part dependent on the earnings of the workman at the time of his death, a [6][widower], a parent other than a widowed mother, a minor illegitimate son, an unmarried illegitimate daughter, a daughter, legitimate or illegitimate, if married and a minor or if widowed, a minor brother, an unmarried or widowed sister, a widowed daughter-in-law, a minor child of a deceased son, [7][a minor child of a deceased daughter where no parent of the child is alive,] or, where no parent of the workman is alive, a paternal grandparent;] (e) “employer” includes any body of persons whether incorporated or not and any managing agent of an employer and the legal representative of a deceased employer, and, when the services of a workman are temporarily lent or let on hire to another person by the person with whom the workman has entered into a contract of service or apprenticeship, means such other person while the workman is working for him; (f) “managing agent” means any person appointed or acting as the representative of another person for the…