Workmen's Compensation Act, 1934

Applications for registration of agreements.

53.—(1) Any person interested in any weekly payment agreement, variation agreement, redemption agreement, commutation agreement, or agreement by way of compromise may send such agreement to the county registrar with an application to have the same registered in the register.

(2) Such application shall state whether the workman who is a party to the agreement is an insured person or not and in the event of his being an insured person shall state the name and address of the approved society by which sickness or disablement benefit under the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1933, payable to such workman is administered, and shall also contain such other particulars as may be required by Rules of Court.

(3) Upon receipt of any such agreement and application, the county registrar shall serve notice of the reception thereof by him on all parties interested therein and, if the workman is an insured person, also on the approved society concerned, and no such agreement shall be registered under this Act until the expiration of seven days after the date of the service of such notice.

(4) Every person upon whom notice of an application to register an agreement is required by this section to be served is in this Act referred to as a notice party.