Workmen'S Compensation Act 1952 s 3

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s 3 Interpretation

(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires— “adopted” means— (a) in relation to Peninsular Malaysia, in reference to any child, a child adopted in accordance with the provisions of the Adoption Act 1952 [Act 257]; (b) *in relation to Sabah, in reference to any child, a child adopted or whose adoption has been registered in accordance with the provisions of any written law relating to the adoption of children from time to time in force in Sabah or where there is no written law then a child whom the Commissioner certifies as having been adopted, prior to the date of injury, in accordance with religious or racial custom; (c) in relation to Sarawak, in reference to any child, a child adopted in accordance with the provisions of any written law relating to the adoption of children from time to time in force in Sarawak; “adult” means a person who has completed his sixteenth year of age and “minor” means a person who has not completed his sixteenth year of age; “approved hospital” means a hospital declared to be such under subsection 15(1); “Arbitrator” means a person appointed by the Minister to be an arbitrator for workmen’s compensation for such area as may be specified in that appointment; “Commissioner” means— (a) in relation to Peninsular Malaysia, the Director General of Labour and all Deputy Directors General of Labour, State Directors of Labour and Assistant State Directors of Labour appointed under the Employment Act 1955[Act 265] and includes such Labour Officers appointed under the said Act as the Minister may declare to be vested with all or any of the powers conferred or duties imposed upon the Commissioner by this Act; (b) *in relation to Sabah, the Director of Labour appointed under the Labour Ordinance of Sabah [Sabah Cap. 67] and includes a Deputy Director, an Assistant Director and any Labour Officer appointed under the said Ordinance whom the Minister may declare to be vested with all or any of the powers conferred or duties imposed upon the Commissioner under this Act; (c) in relation to Sarawak, the Commissioner of Labour appointed under the Labour Ordinance of Sarawak [Swk Cap. 76] and includes a Deputy Commissioner, an Assistant Commissioner and any Labour Officer appointed under the said Ordinance whom the Minister may declare to be vested with all or any of the powers conferred or duties imposed upon the Commissioner under this Act; “dependant” means any member of the family of a deceased workman who wholly or in part depended upon his earnings at the time of his death or would but for the disablement due to the accident have been so dependent: Provided that a person shall not be deemed to be a partial dependant of another person unless he was dependant partially on contributions from that other person for the provision of the ordinary necessities of life; “domestic servant” means a person employed exclusively in the work or in connection with work of a private dwelling house and not of any trade, business or profession carried on by the employer in such dwelling house and includes a cook, house servant (including bedroom and kitchen servants), waiter, butler, child’s or baby’s nurse, valet, footman, gardener, washerman or washerwoman, watchman, groom and driver or cleaner of any vehicle licensed for private use; “earnings” of a workman shall be deemed to include, in addition to his actual money earnings, any privilege or benefit the value of which is capable of being estimated in money, except— (a) a travelling allowance; (b) the value of any travelling concession; (c) a contribution paid by the employer towards any pension or provident fund; (d) a sum paid to the workman to cover any special expenses incurred by him by reason of the nature of his employment: Provided that in the case of temporary disablement such privileges and benefits as the injured workman or any of his dependants continue to enjoy during the period of his said disablement to work shall not be deemed to be benefits for the purpose of calculating earnings; “employer” includes the Government of Malaysia and the Governments of each of the States; in respect of civilian employees engaged in Malaysia or in Singapore of any visiting force lawfully present in Malaysia or of any person in the civil employment of the Government of any Commonwealth country, whose contract of service was made in Malaysia or in Singapore, the Government of that Commonwealth country; any local authority; any person or body of persons whether statutory or incorporated or not; the legal personal representative of a deceased employer; and in relation to a person employed for the purpose of any game or recreation and engaged or paid through a club, the manager or members of the managing committee of the said club: Provided that where the services of a workman are temporarily lent or let on hire to another person by the person with whom the workman has entered into a contract of service or apprenticeship, the latter shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to continue to be the employer of the workman whilst he is working for that other person; “insurer” includes any insurance society, association, company or underwriter; “member of the family” means wife, husband, parent, grandparent, stepfather, stepmother, child, grandchild, stepchild, brother, sister, half-brother, half-sister, stepbrother and stepsister: Provided that— (a) the child of a deceased workman shall be deemed to include the illegitimate child of such workman and his adopted child and any child whose adoption by him has been registered under the Registration of Adoptions Act 1952 [Act 253], and any child under the care, custody or control of such workman pursuant to Part III of the*Children and Young Persons Act 1947 [Act 232]; and (b) the parent of a deceased workman shall be deemed to include the father and the mother of an illegitimate child and the person who has adopted any child or has registered the adoption of any child under the Registration of Adoptions Act 1952, and the person who has the care, custody or control of a child pursuant to Part III of the Children and Young Persons Act 1947; “out-worker” means a person to whom articles or materials are given out to be made up, cleaned, washed, altered, ornamented, finished or 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 materials or articles; “partial disablement” means, where the disablement is of a temporary nature, such disablement as reduces the earning capacity of a workman in any employment in which he was engaged at the time of the accident resulting in his disablement and, where the disablement is of a permanent nature, such disablement as reduces his earning capacity in every employment which he was able to undertake at the time of the accident: Provided that every injury specified in Part II of the First Schedule shall be deemed to result in permanent partial disablement; “registered medical practitioner” means a medical practitioner registered or exempted from registration under any written law relating to the registration of medical practitioners from time to time in force in Malaysia or any part thereof; “registered ship” means any ship or vessel registered or licensed in Malaysia under any law relating to the registration or licensing of ships or vessels from time to time in force in Malaysia or any part thereof; “seaman” means any person forming part of the crew of any registered ship and includes the master of any such ship; “special hospital” means a hospital declared to be such under subsection 15(2); “total disablement” means such disablement whether of a temporary or permanent nature as disables a workman for all work which he was capable of undertaking at the time of the accident resulting in such disablement: Provided that permanent total disablement shall be deemed to result from every injury specified in Part I of the First Schedule, or from any combination of injuries resulting from a single accident and specified in Part II of the First Schedule where the aggregate of the losses of earning capacity specified in the said Schedule against these injuries amounts to or exceeds one hundred per centum; “tributer” means a person who is permitted to win minerals or produce of any kind from or on the land of another and who, in consideration of such permission, gives a proportion of the minerals or produce so won to that other person or pays to him the value of such proportion; *“West Malaysia” has the meaning assigned thereto in section 3 of the Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967 [Act 388], and includes the Federal Territory. (2) The exercise and performance of the powers and duties of a department of the Government of Malaysia or of any State or of any other Government or of a local authority shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be the trade or business of such Government or local authority, as the case may be. *NOTE—For modification to Federal Territory of Labuan–see P.U. (A) 273/1984. *NOTE—For modification to Federal Territory of Labuan–see P.U. (A) 273/1984. *NOTE—The Children and Young Persons Act 1947 [Act 232] was repealed by the Child Protection Act 1999 [Act 468]—see subsection 50(2) of Act 468 and the Act 468 has since been repealed by the Child Act 2001 [Act 611]–see section 130. *NOTE—All references to “West Malaysia” shall be construed as references to “Peninsular Malaysia”–see Interpretation (Amendment) Act 1997 [Act A996], subsection 5(2).

Malay text (authoritative)

(1) Dalam Akta ini melainkan jika konteksnya menghendaki makna yang lain— "anggota keluarga" ertinya isteri, suami, ibu atau aapa, nenek atau datuk, bapa tiri, ibu tiri, anak, cucu, , saudara lelaki, saudara perempuan, saudara lelaki seibu atau sebapa, saudara perempuan seibu atau sebapa, saudara lelaki tiri dan saudara perempuan tiri: Dengan syarat bahawa- (a) anak seseorang pekerja yang telah mati hendaklah disifatkan sebagai termasuk anak tak sah taraf pekerja itu dan anak angkatnya dan mana-mana • anak yang pengangkatar olehnya telah didaftarkan di bawah Akta Pendaftaran Pengangkatan 1952, dan manamana anak di bawah peliharaan, penjagaan atau kawalan pekerja itu menurut Bahagian III Akta Kanak-kanak dan Orang Muda 1947; dan (b) ibu atau bapa seseorang pekerja yang telah mati hendaklah disifatkan sebagai termasuk bapa dan ibu anak tak sah taraf dan orang yang telah mengangkat mana-mana anak atau yang telah mendaftar pengangkatan mana-mana anak di bawah Akta Pendaftaran Pengangkatan 1952, dan orang yang mempunya pemeliharaan, penjagaan, atau pengawatar seseorang anak menurut Bahagıan IIl Akta Kanak-kanak dan Orang Muda 1947; "diangkat" ertinya- (a) berhubungan dengan Malaysia Barat, bagi sebutan mengenai mana-mana kanak-kanak, seseorang kanak-kanak yang diangkat mengikut peruntukan Akta Pengangkatan 1952; (b) berhubungan dengan Sabah, bagi sebutan kanak-kanak, seseorang kanak-kanak yang diangkat atau telah angkatan kanak-kanak yang dari semasa ke semasa berkuatkuasa di Sabah atau jika tiada terdapat undang-undang bertulis maka seseorang kanak-kanak yang diperakui oleh Pesuruhjaya sebagai telah diangkat, sebelum tarikh kecederaan, mengikut adat agama atau kaum; (c) berhubungan dengan Sarawak, bagi sebutan mengenai mana-mana kanak-kanak, seseorang berkuatkuasa di Sarawak; "hospital khas" ertinya sesuatu hospital yang diisytiharkan sedemikian di bawah seksyen 15 (2); "hospital yang diluluskan" ertinya sesuatu hospital yang diisytiharkan sedemikian di bawah seksyen 15 (1); "kapal berdaftar" ertinya mana-mana kapal atau vesel yang didaftar atau diberi lesen di Malaysia di bawah mana-mana undang-undang berhubungan dengan pendattaran atau pelesenan kapal-kapal atau vesel-vesel yang dari semasa ke semasa berkuatkuasa di Malaysia atau mana-mana bahagian daripadanya; "kelasi" ertinya mana-mana orang yang menjadi sebahagian daripada anak kapal mana-mana kapal berdaftar dan termasuk nakhoda mana-mana kapal sedemikian; "majikan" termasuk Kerajaan Malaysia dan [Diubahsuai Kerajaan setiap Negeri; berkenaan dengan pekerja- P.U.333158.] pekerja awam yang diambil bekerja di Malaysia atau di Singapura berkenaan dengan mana-mana angkatan pelawat yang berada secara sah di Malaysia atau berkenaan dengan mana-mana orang yang di dalam pekerjaan awam Kerajaan mana-mana negara Komanwel, yang kontrak perkhidmatannya telah dibuat di Malaysia atau di Singapura, Kerajaan negara Comanwel itu; mana-mana pihak berkuasa tempatan nana-mana orang atau kumpulan orang sama ad berkanun atau diperbadankan atau tidak; wakil diri di bối undaganndengamasekenrya yanlah timaji, dagi seseorang yang digaji bagi maksud apa-apa permainan atau rekreasi dan diambil ei jauatakuasa armelalsan kalap egarus atau ahili. Dengan syarat bahawa jika perkhidmatan seseorang ekerja dıpınjamkan atau disewakan secara sementar epada orang lain oleh orang vang dengannva peker itu telah membuat suatu kontrak perkhidmatan atau perantisan, itu hendaklah, bagi maksud-maksud Akta ini, disifatkan "Malaysia Barat" mempunyai erti yang diberi P.U. (A) 1571 kepadanya dalam seksyen 3 Akta Tafsiran 1967, dan termasuk Wilayah Persekutuan; "Menteri" ertinya Menteri yang dipertanggungkan dengan tanggungjawab bagi Buruh; keluarga pekerja yang telah mati yang pada keseluruhannya atau sebahagiannya bergantung kepada pendapatan tenaganya pada masa kematiannya atau akan bergantung sedemikian kalau tidak kerana Dengan syarat bahawa seseorang itu tidak boleh disifatkan sebagai orang tanggungan separa orang lain melainkan jika dia bergantung secara separa kepada sumbangan daripada orang lain itu bagi peruntukan keperluan hidup biasa; "pekerja luar" ertinya seseorang yang diberi kepadanya artikel-artikel atau benda-benda untuk disediakan, dibersihkan, dibasuh, diubah, dihias, [Bah. I, S.3] disiapkan atau dibaiki atau disesuaikan untuk enjualan di rumahnya sendiri atau di premis-premi ain vang bukan di bawah kawalan atau urusan oran yang memberi benda-benda atau artikel-artikel itu; "pembantu rumah" ertinya seseorang yang digajı secara eksklusif dalam kerja atau berhubungan dengan kerja di rumah kediaman persendirian dan bukan mengenai apa-apa perdagangan, perniagaan atau profesion yang dijalankan oleh majikan dalam rumah kediaman itu dan termasuk tukang masak, orang gaji (termasuklah orang gaji bagi bilik tidur dan dapur), pelayan lelaki, ketua babu, pengasuh kanak-kanak atau bayi, jongos, footman, tukang kebun, pencuci lelakı atau perempuan, penjaga, penjaga kuda dan pemandu atau pembersih mana-mana kenderaan yang diberi lesen bagi kegunaan persendirian; "pemberi atau pembayar tribute" ertinya seseorang yang dibenarkan mendapatkan galıan atau apa-apa jenis hasil daripada orang lain dan yang, sebagai balasan terhadap kebenaran itu, memberi suatu kadar galian atau hasil yang didapati sedemikian kepada orang lain itu atau membayar kepadanya nilai kadar tersebut; "penanggung insurans" termasuk mana-mana pertubuhan, persatuan, syarikat atau pengunderait insurans, "pendapatan tenaga" seseorang pekerja hendaklah disifatkan sebagai termasuk, sebagai tambahan kepada pendapatan wangnya yang sebenar, apa-apa keistimewaan atau faedah yang nilainya boleh dianggarkan dalam bentuk wang, kecuali- (a) elaun perjalanan; (b) nilai apa-apa konsesi perjalanan; (c) sesuatu caruman yang dibayar oleh majikan kepada mana-mana kumpulan wang pencen atau kumpulan wang simpanan; (d) sesuatu jumlah wang yang dibayar kepada pekerja untuk menampung perbelanjaan khas yang ditanggung olehnya oleh sebab jenis pekerjaannya; Dengan syarat bahawa dalam hal takdaya sementara apa-apa keistimewaan dan faedah yang terus dinikmati oleh pekerja tercedera itu atau mana-mana orang tanggungannya sepanjang tempoh takdayanya untuk bekeria tidak boleh disifatkan sebagai faedah bagi P.U.(A) 157/81.] Akta 265. Sabah Bab 67. "pengamal perubatan berdaftar" ertinya seseorang pengamal perubatan berdaftar atau yang dikecualikan daripada pendaftaran di bawah mana-mana undangndang bertulis berhubungan dengan pendaftara engamal-pengamal perubatan vang dari semasa k semasa berkuatkuasa di Malaysia atau mana-mana "Penimbangtara" ertinya seseorang yang dilantik oleh Menteri menjadi penimbangtara bagi pampasaı ekerja-pekerja untuk sesuatu kawasan sebagaiman vang dinyatakan dalam perlantikan tersebut; "Pesuruhjaya" ertinya— (a) berhubungan dengan Malaysia Barat, Ketua Timbalan Ketua Pengarah Buruh, Pengarah- Pengarah Buruh Negeri dan Penolong yang dilantik di bawah Ăkta Pekerjaan 1955 dan termasuk Pegawai Buruh-Pegawai Buruh boleh diisytiharkan oleh Menteri sebagai diletakhak dengan semua atau mana-mana kuasa yang diberi atau tugas yang dikenakan ke atas Pesuruhjaya oleh Akta ini; (b) berhubungan dengan Sabah, Pengarah Buruh yang dilantik di bawah Ordinan Buruh Sabah dan termasuk Timbalan Pengarah, Penolong Pengarah dan mana-mana Pegawai Buruh yang dilantik di bawah Ordinan tersebut yang boleh diisytiharkan oleh Menteri sebagai diletakhak dengan semua atau mana-mana kuasa yang diberi atau tugas yang dikenakan ke atas Pesuruhjaya di bawah Akta ini; (c) berhubungan dengan Sarawak, Pesuruhjaya Bural kadan lilamis di ramali ortisan Baunyl emnk ad Penolong Pesuruhjaya dan mana-mana Pegawai Buruh yang dilantik di bawah Ordinan tersebut yang boleh diisytiharkan oleh Menteri sebagai diletakhak dengan semua atau mana-mana kuasa yang diberi atau tugas yang dikenakan ke atas Pesuruhjaya di bawah Akta ini; "takdaya separa" ertinya, jika takdaya itu adalah dari jenis sementara, takdaya yang mengurangkan upaya mencari nafkah seseorang pekerja dalam apa-apa pekerjaan di mana dia bekerja pada masa kemalangan yang mengakibatkan takdayanya dan, jika takdaya itu adalah dari jenis yang kekal, takdaya yang mengurangkan upayanya mencari nafkah dalam tiap-tiap pekerjaan yang boleh dilakukannya pada masa kemalangan itu: Dengan syarat bahawa tiap-tiap kecederaan yang dinyatakan dalam Jadual Pertama hendaklah disifatkan sebagai mengakibatkan takdaya separa yang kekal; "takdaya sepenuh" ertinya apa-apa takdaya sama ada dari jenis sementara atau kekal yang menyebabkan seseorang pekerja takdaya untuk melakukan segala pekerjaan yang dıa berupaya lakukan pada masa kemalangan yang mengakibatkan takdaya itu: Dengan syarat bahawa takdaya sepenuh yang kekal hendaklah disifatkan sebagai berakibat dari kehilangan penglihatan sepenuh yang kekal, atau dari apa-apa kombinası kecederaan-kecederaan akibat dari satu kemalangan dan yang dınyatakan dalam Jadual Pertama di mana kerugian agregat upaya mencari nafkah yang dinyatakan dalam Jadual tersebut dibandingkan dengan kecederaan-kecederaan ini berjumlah atau melebihi seratus peratus. (2) Perjalanan dan pelaksanaan kuasa dan tugas [Gan. Ord. sesuatu jabatan Kerajaan Malaysia atau mana-mana 31/56.] Negeri atau mana-mana Kerajaan lain atau sesuatu (Diubahsuai pihak berkuasa tempatan hendaklah, bagi maksud P.U. 332158.] [Bah. I-II, S. 3-4] Akta ini, disifatkan sebagai perdagangan atau perniagaan Kerajaan atau pihak berkuasa tempatan itu, mengikut mana-mana yang berkenaan.

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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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