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Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998
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#### 1A Outworkers
1A Outworkers
> > (1) If—
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> > > (a) a person (the principal) contracts with another person to perform any work as an outworker, and
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> > > (b) the outworker neither employs any worker, nor subcontracts with any person, to perform any of the work for the profit of the outworker,
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> > the outworker is, for the purposes of this Act, taken to be a worker employed by the principal.
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> > (2) In this clause—
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> > outworker means a person to whom articles or materials are given out to be made up, cleaned, washed, altered, ornamented, finished or repaired, or adapted for sale—
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> > > (a) in the person’s own home, or
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> > > (b) on other premises not under the control or management of the person who gave out the articles or materials.