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Workers Compensation Act 1951
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5 Meaning of employer
employer includes—
(a) an entity; and
(b) the legal personal representative of a dead employer; and
(c) if the services of the worker are temporarily lent or let on hire to
someone else (the temporary employer) by the person (the
original employer) with whom the worker has entered into a
contract of service or apprenticeship—the original employer is,
for this Act, taken to continue to be the employer of the worker
while the worker is working for the temporary employer.
Interpretation generally Chapter 2