STATUTORY RULES.

1919. No. 244.

REGULATION UNDER THE SEAMEN’S COMPENSATION ACT 1911.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Seamen’s Compensation Act 1911, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this ninth day of October, 1919.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. MASSY GREENE,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

Amendment of the Seamen’s Compensation Regulations 1918.

(Statutory Rules 1918, No. 163.)

The Seamen’s Compensation Regulations 1918 are amended by the insertion of the following regulation after regulation 57:—

“57a. (1) Where—

(a) an employer has paid to a prescribed authority a sum of money as compensation under the Act in respect of the death of a seaman; and

(b) the questions as to who are dependants and/or the amount payable to each dependant have not been determined,

the prescribed authority on proof to his satisfaction—

(i) that any person is a dependant of the deceased and is entitled to receive the whole or part of the compensation payable in respect of his death; and

(ii) that such person is in urgent need of money or assistance,

may advance to such person such sum as he thinks proper out of the sum received by him as compensation for the relief or assistance of such person without waiting for the determination of the amount of compensation to which such person is entitled.

(2) The amount of money to be advanced under this regulation shall in no case exceed one-third of the amount estimated by the prescribed authority as the compensation to which such person is entitled.

(3) The amount of money advanced under this regulation shall be deducted from the amount of compensation determined to be payable to such person.”

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