Workmen's Compensation (Amendment) Act, 1955

Supplementary allowance to workmen entitled under Acts of 1897 and 1900 and Act of 1906.

3.—(1) Where a workman is entitled to a weekly payment by way of compensation under the Acts of 1897 and 1900 or the Act of 1906 in respect of any week commencing on or after the appointed day—

(a) the workman shall be entitled, in respect of that week, to a supplementary allowance under this section equal—

(i) to four-fifths of the weekly payment, or

(ii) in a case in which, if this Act had not been passed, the workman would, consequent upon section 3 of the Act of 1953, be entitled in respect of that week to a total amount exceeding the aggregate of the weekly payment and four-fifths thereof—to four-fifths of the weekly payment together with the excess of that total amount over that aggregate,

(b) the supplementary allowance under this section shall for all the purposes of the Acts of 1897 and 1900 or the Act of 1906 (whichever is appropriate) be deemed to be part of the weekly payment and shall accordingly be payable by the employer liable to make the weekly payment.

(2) The references in subsection (1) of this section to a weekly payment by way of compensation under the Acts of 1897 and 1900 or the Act of 1906 include references to—

(a) any sum payable under section 14 of the Act of 1934, and

(b) the supplementary allowance payable under section 3 of the Act of 1948.