AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION ORDINANCE 1967

Explanatory Memorandum

No. 44 of 1967

	Weekly payments made under the Workmen’s Compensation Ordinance 1951-1965 to a workman under legal disability or, in the case of the workman’s death, to dependent children are paid into Court, and can be obtained by the beneficiary only by weekly applications to the Court.

	Under the Workmen’s Compensation Ordinance 1967, the Court may order the weekly payments to be made directly to a specified person to be applied by him for the benefit of the person under legal disability or the child, as the case may be.  The person liable to make the weekly payments or the person to whom or in respect of whom payments are made (or a person acting on his behalf) may apply for such an order to be made.

	Existing references have been expressed as equivalent amounts in decimal currency.  In section 14 (1.), the word “workmen” has been replaced by the singular form.

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