Bare ActsThe Workmen Compensation Act 1923

Section 5

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Subs. by s. 2, ibid., for the former clause (w.e.f. 1-6-1959). 14 (iii) if wholly or in part dependent on the earnings of the workman at the time of his death, (a) a widower, (b) a parent other than a widowed mother, (c) a minor illegitimate son, an unmarried illegitimate daughter or a daughter legitimate or illegitimate if married and a minor or if widowed and a minor, (d) a minor brother or a unmarried sister or a widowed sister if a minor, (e) a widowed daughter-in-law, (f) a minor child of a pre-deceased son, (g) a minor child of a pre-deceased daughter where no parent of the child is alive, or (h) a paternal grandparent if no parent of the workman is alive;] (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 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 purpose of carrying on such other person's trade or business, but does not include an individual manager subordinate to an employer1*; 2*[(ff) "minor" means a person who has not attained the age of 18 years;] (g) "partial disablement" means, where the disablement is of a temporarp nature, such disablement as reduces the earning capacity of a workman in any employment in which he was engaged at the time of the accident resulting in ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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