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Accident to workman

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Workmen's Compensation Act

managers of a games club. As to accidents and industrial diseases within the ambit of the Act, see ACCIDENT TO WORKMAN, and the (English) Act of 1925, ss. 43 (1); Sch. III., s. 471, and subsequent orders by the

Arising out of his employment

be some sort of connection between the employment and the injury caused to a workman due to the accident. But it is wide enough to cover the case where there may not necessarily be a direct connection

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Hire

when it is finished. If, before the work is finished, the thing perishes by internal defect, by inevitable accident, or by irresistible force, without any default of the workman, then (1) if the work is independent of

Accident

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Dependant and dependent

of the workman at the time of his death, or would but for the incapacity due to the accident, have been so dependent, and where the workman, being the parent or grand-parent of an illegitimate child, leaves

Total disablement

as incapacities a workman for all work which he was capable of performing at the time of the accident resulting in such disablement, National Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Mohd. Saleem Khan, (1992) 2 Civ LJ 46. [Workmen's

Continuous service

service, and includes service which may be interrupted merely on account of sickness or authorised leave or an accident or a strike which is not illegal or a lock-out or a cessation of work which is not … lock-out or a cessation of work which is not due to any fault on the part of the workman, and a workman, who during a period of twelve calendar months has actually worked in an industry for

Partial disablement

earning capacity of a workman in any employment in which he was engaged at the time of the accident resulting in the disablement, and, where the disablement is of a permanent nature, such disablement as reduces his

In the course of employment

time goes by), while doing' (The Concise Oxford Dictionary, New Seventh Edition). The dictionary meaning indicates that the accident must take place within or during the period of employment, Regional Director, ESI Corpn. v. Francis De Costa, … of employment, the words 'In the course of employment' mean in the course of the work which the workman is employed to do and which is incidental to it', Mackinnon Machenzie and Co. (P) Ltd. v. Ibrahim

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