Further Information.

For full particulars as to what industries and what employers and workmen are covered by Part I of the Act, Schedule 1 and Schedule 2 (which will be found in their amended form at the end of the Act) should be referred to; and with them should be read sections 109, 69 (2), 2 (2), 3 (4), 6, 11, 12, 75, and paragraphs (p), (n), (d), (i), (k) and (f) of 2 (1), and Regulations 43 to 50, 52, 53 and 63. A circular, known as Circular 3, contains this information in more convenient form.

For more complete information upon other points the Act should also be perused.

Copies of this synopsis printed in booklet form, copies of the Act and Regulations, or of Circular 3 above mentioned, forms for pay roll statements, and forms for reports of accidents, or other information concerning the Act, may be obtained on application to The Workmen's Compensation Board, Normal School Buildings, Toronto.

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PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS, by an Act passed by the Legislature of our Province of Ontario at the Session thereof held in the fourth year of Our Reign, intituled "The Workmen's Compensation Act,” it is enacted by Section 3 thereof that where in any employment to which Part I of the said Act applies, personal injury by accicident arising out of and in the course of the employment is, after a day to be named by proclamation of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, caused to a workman, his employer shall be liable to provide or to pay compensation in the manner and to the extent thereinafter mentioned except as therein provided;

AND WHEREAS it has appeared expedient to Our LieutenantGovernor in Council that a Proclamation should now issue, naming a day for the purpose aforesaid;

NOW KNOW YE THAT, having taken the premises into Our Royal Consideration, We, by and with the advice of Our Executive Council of Our Province of Ontario, and in the exercise of the power in US vested in this behalf by the said in part recited Act or otherwise howsoever, DO, by this Our Royal Proclamation, Hereby name midnight between the 31st day of December, 1914, and the 1st day of January, 1915, as the time from and after which compensation to workmen shall be provided or paid under and in accordance with the provisions of the said Act;

Of all which premises all Our loving subjects and all other whom it doth or may in anywise concern are hereby required to take notice and govern themselves accordingly;

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF We have caused these Our letters to be made Patent and the Great Seal of Our said Province of Ontario to be hereunto affixed; WITNESS:

HIS HONOUR SIR JOHN MORISON GIBSON, Knight Commander of Our Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, A Colonel in Our Militia of Canada, etc., etc., etc., LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF OUR PROVINCE OF ONTARIO, at Our Government House in Our City of Toronto, in Our said Province, this twenty-fourth day of September, in the Year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and in the fifth year of Our Reign.

By Command :

W. J. HANNA,

Provincial Secretary.

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The Workmen's Compensation Act

ONTARIO

With Amendments of 1915

Note.-Consolidated for convenience, references to the amendments being shown in Italics at the end of the sections.

The Workmen's Compensation Act, 4 Geo. V., chap. 25, was passed 1st May, 1914, and became operative as respects payment of compensation on 1st January, 1915.

The amending Act, 5 Geo. V., chap. 24, was passed 8th April, 1915, but by section 34 thereof all its provisions except those contained in sections 10, 93a and 98a of this consolidation have effect from the commencement of The Workmen's Compensation Act.

HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of

the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

PRELIMINARY.

1. This Act may be cited as The Workmen's Compensa- Short title. tion Act.

2.-(1) In this Act:

Interpretation.

(a) "Accident" shall include a wilful and an inten- "Accident.”
tional act, not being the act of the workman and

a fortuitous event occasioned by a physical or
natural cause;

fund."

(b) "Accident Fund" shall mean the fund provided "Accident
for the payment of compensation, outlays and
expenses under this Act in respect of Schedule 1;
(As amended by s. 1 (1), c. 24, 1915);

(c) "Board" shall mean Workmen's Compensation "Board."
Board;

(d) "Construction" shall include re-construction, re- "Construcpair, alteration and demolition;

tion."

ants."

(e) "Dependants" shall mean such of the members of "Depend-
the family of a workman as were wholly or partly
dependent upon his earnings at the time of his
death or who but for the incapacity due to the
accident would have been so dependent;

"Employer."

"Employment."

"Industrial disease."

"Industry."

"Invalid."

"Manufacturing."

"Medical referee."

"Member of the family."

(f) "Employer" shall include every person having in his service under a contract of hiring or apprenticeship, written or oral, express or implied, any person engaged in any work in or about an industry, and where the services of a workman are temporarily let or hired to another person by the person with whom the workman has entered into such a contract the latter shall be deemed to continue to be the employer of the workman whilst he is working for that other person;

(g) "Employment" shall include employment in an industry or any part, branch or department of an industry;

(h) "Industrial disease" shall mean any of the diseases mentioned in Schedule 3, and any other disease which by the Regulations is declared to be an industrial disease;

(i) "Industry" shall include establishment, undertaking, trade and business;

(j) "Invalid" shall mean physically or mentally incapable of earning;

(k) "Manufacturing" shall include making, preparing, altering, repairing, ornamenting, printing, finishing, packing, assembling the parts of and adapting for use or sale any article or commodity;

(7) "Medical Referee" shall mean medical referee appointed by the Board;

(m) "Member of the Family" shall mean and include wife, husband, father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, stepfather, stepmother, son, daughter, grandson, granddaughter, stepson, stepdaughter, brother, sister, half-brother and halfsister, and a person who stood in loco parentis to the workman or to whom the workman stood in loco parentis, whether related to him by consanguinity or not so related, and where the workman is the parent or grandparent of an illegitimate child, shall include such child, and where the workman is an illegitimate child shall include his parents and grandparents;

Outworker" shall mean a person to whom ar-
ticles or materials are given out to be made up,
cleaned, washed, altered, ornamented, finished,
repaired, or adapted for sale in his own home
or on other premises not under the control or
management of the person who gave out the ar-
ticles or materials;

"Outworker."

tions."

(0) "Regulations" shall mean Regulations made by "Regulathe Board under the authority of this Act;

(p) “Workman " shall include a person who has "Workman.”
entered into or works under a contract of ser-
vice or apprenticeship, written or oral, express
or implied, whether by way of manual labour,
or otherwise, but when used in Part I shall not
include an outworker, or a person engaged in
clerical work and not exposed to the hazards inci-
dent to the nature of the work carried on in the
employment. (As amended by s. 1 (2), c. 24,
1915).

(2) The exercise and performance of the powers and Municipal duties of:

(a) a municipal corporation;

(b) a public utilities commission;

(c) any other commission having the management and
conduct of any work or service owned by or oper-
ated for a municipal corporation;

(d) the board of trustees of a police village; and

(e) a school board,

shall for the purposes of Part I be deemed the trade or business of the corporation, commission, board of trustees or school board, but the obligation to pay compensation under Part I shall apply only to such part of the trade or business if it were carried on by a company or an individual, would be an industry for the time being included in Schedule 1 or Schedule 2, and to workmen employed in or in connection therewith.

as,

corporations, etc., and school boards.