Cork Tramways (Employees' Compensation) Act, 1933

Investigation of applications by the Committee.

12.—(1) The Committee shall investigate in the prescribed manner every application which is referred to them under this Act and shall make to the Minister a report in the prescribed form in respect of such application.

(2) Every report made by the Committee under this section shall, in addition to such matters (if any) as shall be prescribed, contain a statement of the opinion of the Committee as to whether the applicant is or is not a person entitled to compensation under this Act together with a statement of the facts as found by the Committee on which such opinion is based, and also, if the Committee is of opinion that the applicant is a person entitled to compensation under this Act, a statement of the following facts as found by the Committee, that is to say:—

(a) the duration, nature, and other relevant particulars of the employment of the applicant on the Tramway, and

(b) the amount of compensation, calculated in accordance with this section, payable to or in respect of the applicant.

(3) The amount of the compensation which is stated in a report made by the Committee to be payable to an applicant shall be calculated on the basis of one-twelfth of the yearly amount of the rate of salary or wages (whether weekly, monthly, yearly, or otherwise) of which the applicant was in receipt in respect of his employment on the Tramway on the critical date for every completed year of his employment on the Tramway.