Act Number: 8

Act Name: The Employees Compensation Act, 1923

Year: 1923

Enactment Date: 1923-03-05

Long Title: An Act to provide for the payment by certain classes of employers to their workmen of compensation for injury by accident.

Ministry: Ministry of Labour and Employment

Department:

Section 13: Remedies of employer against stranger.
    Where a 1[employee] has recovered compensation in respect of any injury caused under circumstances creating a legal liability of some person other than the person by whom the compensation was paid to pay damages in respect thereof, the person by whom the compensation was paid and any person who has been called on to pay an indemnity under section 12 shall be entitled to be indemnified by the person so liable to pay damages as aforesaid.
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 45 of 2009, s. 5, for "workman" (w.e.f.18-1-2010).
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