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of accident and appli-
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(4) Any other compensation payable under this Ordinance shall be paid to the Court and when paid to the Court shall be paid by the Court to the person entitled thereto :
Provided that where compensation in the form of periodical payments for temporary incapacity has been agreed and approved in accordance with the provisions of section 16, then the Com- missioner of Labour may direct in writing that such periodical payments shall be paid by the employer direct to the workman or to such other person for the benefit of the workman as the Commissioner of Labour may consider best fitted to provide for the welfare of the workman, and the receipt of such other person shall be a sufficient discharge in respect of the amount of any periodical payments so directed to be paid to such other
person,
(5) The receipt of the Registrar of the Court shall be a sufficient discharge in respect of any amount paid to the Court under the provisions of this Ordinance.
(6) No appeal shall lie from any order or direction of the Court made or given under this section.
13. (1) Proceedings for the recovery under this Ordinance of compensation for an injury shall not be maintainable unless notice of the accident has been given to the employer by or on behalf of the workman, in the manner hereinafter provided, as soon as practicable after the happening thereof and before the workman has voluntarily left the employment in which he was injured, and unless the application for compensation with respect to such accident has been made within six months from the occur- rence of the accident causing the injury or, in the case of death, within six months from the date of death:
Provided that the want of, or any defect or irregularity in, a notice shall not be a bar to the maintenance of proceedings-
(a) if the application is made in respect of the death of a workman resulting from an accident, which occurred on the premises of the employer, or at any place where the workman at the time of the accident was working under the control of the employer or of any person employed by him, and the workman died on such premises or al such place, or on any premises belonging to the employer, or died without having left the vicinity of the premises or place where the accident occurred, or
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(b) if the employer is proved to have had knowledge of the accident from any other source at or about the time of the accident, or if it is found in the proceedings for settling that claim that the employer is not, or would not, if a notice or an amended notice were then given and the hearing postponed, be prejudiced in his defence by the want, defect or irregularity, or that such want, defeci or irregularity was occasioned by mistake, absence from the Colony, or other reasonable cause,
(2) A notice under this section may be given either in writing or orally to the employer (or, if there is more than one employer, to one of such employers), or to any foreman ur other official under whose supervision the workman is employed, or to any persón designated for the purpose by the employer, and shall specify the name and address of the person injured, and shall state in ordinary language the cause of the injury and the date on which and the place at which the accident occurred.
(3) The Court may receive and determine any application for compensation in any case norwithstanding that the notice required by subsection (1) has not been given, or that the application has not been made in due time as required by that subsection, if it is satisfied that there was reasonable excuse for the failure so to give notice or to make an application, as the case may be,
14. (1) Notice of an accident which results in personal injury Employer to a workman shall be given in the prescribed form to the Com- to report missioner of Labour by the employer of such workman as soon as to or death
the injury practicable after the happening thereof.
of a work- man and
notification.
(2) When the death of a workman from any cause whatever method of is brought to the notice of, or comes to the knowledge of, his employer, the employer shall, as soon as practicable after the recurrence of the death, give notice thereof to the Commissioner of Labour, and such notice shall state the circumstances of the death of the workman if they are known to the employer.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2) the death of a workman on the premises of his employer shall be deemed to be within the knowledge of such employer.
(4) Any employer who, without reasonable cause, fails to comply with the provisions of subsection (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction therefor to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.
(5) Nothing contained in this section shall prevent any person from making a claim for compensation under this Ordinance.