WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 7

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 7

7 .         Tributers

        (1)         For the purposes of this Act a tributer, and any wages man employed by the tributer, shall be deemed a worker, and the lessee or owner of the mine let on tribute shall be deemed an employer of the tributer or wages man.

        (2)         The earnings of the tributer shall be deemed to be equal to the ruling rate of wages for miners as prescribed for the time being by the current industrial award in force in the district in which the mine is situated.

        [Section 7 amended: No. 42 of 2004 s. 9.]