Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Mines Act 1958 - SECT 411

Employer to compensate employees injured through non-observance of this Act

411. Employer to compensate employees injured through non-observance of this
Act



(1) If any person employed in or about any mine suffers an injury in person or
is killed owing to the non-observance in such mine of any of the provisions of
this Division, such non-observance not being solely due to the negligence of
the person so injured or killed, or owing in any way to the negligence of the
owner of such mine his agents or servants, the person so injured or his
personal representatives or the personal representatives of the person so
killed may recover from the owner compensation by way of damages as for a tort
committed by such owner.



(2) The amount of such compensation with the costs of recovering the same when
determined shall constitute a charge on the mine and mining plant in or about
which such person was so employed, and all charges arising under the
provisions of this section shall as between themselves be paid rateably.



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Subdivision 8-Inspection