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Workers Compensation Act 1951
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16 Timber contractors
(1) This section applies to an individual (the timber contractor) who is
engaged by a person (the principal) under a contract for services to
do any of the following work:
(a) logging (including, for example, felling, crosscutting, snigging,
loading, carting, bundling and debarking);
(b) felling or cutting trees for firewood;
(c) delivering timber or firewood;
(d) clearing timber, cutting scrub, preparing land for tree planting,
planting trees, pruning trees or coppice cleaning.
(2) The timber contractor is taken to be a worker employed by the
(a) the work is for (or incidental to) the principal’s trade or business;
and
(b) the timber contractor personally does part or all of the work; and
(c) if the principal is a corporation—the timber contractor is not an
(3) This section applies whether the work is to be performed by the
timber contractor—
(a) for the principal; or
(b) for someone (other than the principal) with whom the timber
contractor has no contract to perform the work.