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 19: Reference to Commissioners.
    (1) If any question arises in any proceedings under this Act as to the liability of any person to pay compensation (including any question as to whether a person injured is or is not a 1[employee]) or as to the amount or duration of compensation (including any question as to the nature or extent of disablement), the question shall, in default of agreement, be settled by 2[a Commissioner].
     (2) No Civil Court shall have jurisdiction to settle, decide or deal with any question which is by or under this Act required to be settled, decided or dealt with by a Commissioner or to enforce any liability incurred under this Act.
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 45 of 2009, s. 5, for "workman" (w.e.f. 18-1-2010).
2. Subs. by Act 15 of 1933, s. 12, for "the Commissioner".
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