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Workmen'S Compensation Act 1952 s 25

Workmen'S Compensation Act 1952 s 25

Text recovered by OCR from a scanned copy — section numbers and wording may be wrong. Check the official PDF on lom.agc.gov.my before citing.

s 25 Commissioner may receive and pay to dependants money due to a dead workman from his employer

Notwithstanding anything contained in any written law relating to the administration or distribution of estates of deceased persons for the time being in force in Malaysia or any part thereof, where a workman has died and it appears to the Commissioner that his dependants are entitled to compensation under this Act and that any money not exceeding in amount the amount of his earnings for two months as calculated under section 9 was payable to such workman by his employer it shall be lawful for the Commissioner in his discretion to receive that money and to pay the same to the dependants without the production of a grant of representation.

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Find Act 273 on lom.agc.gov.my ↗

Text as at 1 January 2006 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.

Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).

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