Bulletin, Issue 400U.S. Government Printing Office, 1910 |
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Page 213 - The employer to whom notice of the death, disablement, or suspension is to be given shall be the employer who last employed the workman during the said twelve months in the employment to the nature of which the disease was due, and the notice may be given notwithstanding that the workman has voluntarily left his employment.
Page 218 - Every regulation under this act shall be laid before each House of Parliament forthwith, and, if an address is presented to His Majesty by either House of Parliament within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat...
Page 202 - The provisions of section 1, article 5 of this chapter, providing for the finality of the commissioner's rulings and the review by the supreme court of appeals, are applicable to the provisions of this article. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act, or any part thereof, are hereby repealed.
Page 213 - Provided that: — (a) The employer shall not be liable under this act in respect of any injury which does not disable the workman for a period of at least two weeks from earning full wages at the work at which he was employed...
Page 203 - ... liable shall be the last employer in whose employment the employee was last injuriously exposed to the hazards of the disease during a period of sixty (60) days or more...
Page 213 - If it is proved that the workman has at the time of entering the employment wilfully and falsely represented himself in writing as not having previously suffered from the disease, compensation shall not be payable...
Page 207 - If any section or provision of this chapter be decided by the courts to be unconstitutional or invalid, the same shall not affect the validity of the chapter as a whole or any part thereof other than the part so decided to be unconstitutional or invalid.
Page 8 - ... any person, ever so healthful or strong, working in that business, cannot probably survive above two years, occasioned by the dust sucked into his body by the air he breathes...
Page 213 - ... twelve months employed the workman in the employment to the nature of which the disease was due shall be liable to make to the employer from whom compensation...
Page 213 - The compensation shall be recoverable from the employer who last employed the workman during the said twelve months in the employment to the nature of which the disease was due...