Div 9Miscellaneous.

Division 9.—Miscellaneous.

Part III.—Times for examination of seamen by a medical practitioner paid by employer.

C.9286.—Price 1s. 9d.

Part IV.—Duties and remuneration of medical referees under provisions of First and Second Schedules to the Act.

Division 1.—General.

Division 2.—References under Schedule I., paragraph (13).

Division 3.—References under Schedule I., paragraph (19).

Division 4.—References under Schedule II., paragraph (12).

Part V.—Miscellaneous.

Definitions.

3. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—

“Agreed Arbitrator” means a single arbitrator agreed on by the parties to settle any matter which, under the Seamen’s Compensation Act 1911, is to be settled by arbitration.

“Appointed Arbitrator” means a single arbitrator appointed by the judge.

“Committee” means a committee representative of an employer and his seaman, with power to settle matters under the Seamen’s Compensation Act 1911, in the case of employer and seamen:

“County Court” means a County Court, District Court, or Local Court of any State, or any Court exercising in any part of the Commonwealth a limited civil jurisdiction and presided over by a judge, or a police, stipendiary, or special magistrate:

“Dependants” means such of the members of the seaman’s family as were wholly or in part dependent upon the earnings of the seaman at the time of his death, or who would, but for the incapacity due to the accident, have been so dependent, and where the seaman—

(a) being the parent or grandparent of an illegitimate child, leaves the child so dependent upon his earnings, or

(b) being an illegitimate child, leaves a parent or grandparent so dependent upon his earnings,

includes such an illegitimate child and parent or grandparent respectively:

“Employer” includes any body of persons corporate or unincorporate, and the legal personal representative of a deceased employer, and, where the services of a seaman are temporarily lent or let on hire to another person by the person with whom the seaman has entered into a contract of service or apprenticeship, the latter shall for the purposes of these Regulations, be deemed to continue to be the employer of the seaman whilst he is working for that other person:

“Judge” means a Judge of a County Court as defined in this Regulation.

“Medical Referee” means a medical practitioner appointed by the Minister to act as medical referee for the purposes of the Seamen’s Compensation Act 1911.

“Prescribed Authority” means the Deputy Director of Navigation for the State in which the proceedings are commenced, the Director of Navigation, the High Commissioner for the Commonwealth, or any officer of the High Commissioner’s staff thereto authorized in writing by him.