PART IX.

Administrative Provisions.

71. —(1) Where under any law from time to time in force in any other State compensation is payable in respect of injuries to workmen, it shall be lawful for the Executive Council to enter into a provisional arrangement with the Government of such other State whereby sums awarded in such other State under such law to persons resident or becoming resident in Saorstát Eireann may be transferred to and administered by the Judge of the Circuit Court appointed by Rules of Court and sums awarded in Saorstát Eireann as compensation under this Act to persons resident or becoming resident in such other State may be transferred to and administered by a competent authority in such other State.

(2) Whenever any such provisional arrangement is entered into it shall be lawful for the Executive Council by order to give statutory effect to such provisional arrangement and thereupon such provisional arrangement shall, as from the date of such order or any later date specified in such order, but subject to the provisions of this section, have effect as if enacted in this section.

(3) An order made by the Executive Council under this section shall only have effect by virtue of this section if and so long as the arrangement to which such order relates, in so far as it relates to the transfer of sums awarded in the other State with which such arrangement is made under the law relating to compensation in respect of injuries to workmen to persons resident or becoming resident in Saorstát Eireann to the Court in Saorstát Eireann, has the effect of law in such other State.

(4) Whenever an order is made by the Executive Council under this section Rules of Court may provide—

(a) for the transfer, in such manner as may be provided by the arrangement to which such order relates, to the State with which such arrangement is made of any money paid into Court under this Act and rules made thereunder, as applicable for the benefit of any person resident in or about to reside in such State;

(b) for the receipt and administration by the Court of any money which under any such arrangement has been transmitted from such State as money applicable for the benefit of any person resident or about to reside in Saorstát Eireann.

72. —A weekly payment payable under this Act or any scheme certified under this Act or any sum payable under an order of the Court redeeming a weekly payment or under a redemption agreement, a commutation agreement or an agreement by way of compromise shall not be capable of being assigned, charged or attached, and shall not pass to any other person by operation of law, nor shall any claim be set off against the same.

73. —Where—

(a) compensation is payable under this Act in respect of an injury to a workman, and

(b) such workman has received, whether in hospital or elsewhere, medical or surgical treatment in respect of such injury, and

(c) any fees are due by such workman to a medical practitioner in respect of such treatment, and

(d) such compensation is fixed by an order of the Court or under a weekly payment agreement, commutation agreement or an agreement by way of compromise registered by order of the Court under Part VI of this Act,

the Court may, if it so thinks fit, upon the application of such medical practitioner made immediately upon the making of such order, direct the employer to pay, in addition to the compensation, to such medical practitioner in respect of such fees such sum, not exceeding five pounds, as the Court may fix, and if such direction is given the payment by the employer to such medical practitioner of the sum so fixed shall be deemed to be a payment by such workman to such medical practitioner in respect of such fees.

74. —(1) Every employer in any prescribed industry shall on or before the prescribed day in every prescribed year send to the Minister a correct return specifying the number of injuries in respect of which compensation has been paid by him under this Act during the previous year the amount of such compensation and such other particulars as may be prescribed.

(2) If any employer in any prescribed industry makes default in complying with this section he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding five pounds.

75. —Paragraph (b) of sub-section (1) of section 18 of the Coal Mines Act, 1911 is hereby amended by the substitution of the words ‘and disabled, for more than three days, any person employed in or about the mine from earning full wages at the work at which he was employed’ for the words ‘and disabled, for more than seven days, any person employed in or about the mine from working at his ordinary work’ now contained therein, and the said section shall be construed and have effect accordingly.