New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION (LEAD POISONING--BROKEN HILL) ACT 1922 - SECT 8

8 Compensation until fit

(1) If the board, after examination, certifies that a workman who has been employed in or upon a Broken Hill mine, and who has been disabled by lead poisoning, is physically fit to return to employment in or upon a Broken Hill mine his right to compensation shall cease unless the mine-owner who last employed him before the commencement of the disablement refuses to re-employ or continue to employ or dismisses the said workman for the reason that the workman has been disabled by lead poisoning.

(2) Any mine-owner who for the reason that a workman has been disabled by lead poisoning:

(a) refuses to employ or continue to employ a workman who has been disabled by lead poisoning, and subsequently certified as fit to return to employment in or upon a Broken Hill mine, or

(b) dismisses a workman who has been employed or continued in employment after disablement and subsequent certification of fitness as aforesaid,

shall, unless compensation is paid as prescribed by section nine, be guilty of an offence against this Act and be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars.

(3) In every case under this section it shall lie on the mine-owner to satisfy the arbitrator or the court that such workman was refused re-employment or continuance of employment or was dismissed from his employment for some reasonable cause other than that he had been disabled by lead poisoning.