Workmen’S Compensation Act · 1984 Revised Edition · Part III
Section 29
In plain English
Not legal advice
The commissioner may hold inquiries and make orders on certain matters. An unhappy party may ask the arbitrator to change or cancel an order within 14 days of receiving it. The commissioner may inquire into suspected accidents that injure or kill workmen. The commissioner may reopen an inquiry and, if the workman and employer agree, change a past agreement.
Summary · Drafted with AI, checked against the official text on 30 Sep 2026.
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
For the purposes of deciding-er may hold inquiries
any matter requiring to be decided by him under the provisions of sections 10, 15, 16, 19 or the Third Schedule; or
any question arising from proceedings under the Act in which it appears to him that the entitle-Workmen's Compensation rnent to compensation of the workman or his de-pendants is not in dispute the Commissioner may hold an enquiry in such manner as he thinks fit and may make such order as he considers neces-sary.
Any party aggrieved by any order of the Corn-missioner under subsection (1) may at any time within 14
days of the communication to him of such order apply to the arbitrator to vary or cancel such order.
arbitrator
"arbitrator" means a person appointed by His Majesty by notification in the Gazette to be an arbitrator for workmen's compensation; the "Commissioner'' means the Commissioner of Labour appointed under section 3 of the Labour Act…
If any other question arises under this Act that question shall be settled by agreement between the Corn-missioner, the workman and the employer and for the pur-pose of reaching agreement the Commissioner may hold an enquiry in such manner as he thinks fit.
employer
"employer" includes - (a) the Government; (b) any statutory body or authority; (c) any person or body of person whether in-corporate or not; (d) the legal personal representative of a de-ceased employer; and (e) in relation to a person employed for the pur-pose of any game or recreation and engaged or paid through a club, the manager or members of the managing committee of such club; and where the services of a workman are tempor-arily lent or let on hire to another person by the person with whom the workman has entered into a contract of employment, 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;
( 4) An application to the Commissioner to settle any question may be made by or on beh::!lf of a workman or the employer and shall be made in such form and shall be accompanied, by such fee as may be prescribed and shall contain a concise statement of the circumstances of the acci-dent and of the resulting injury:
Provided always that where the Commissioner has reasonable cause to believe that an accident has occurred resulting in injury to or the death of any workman he may of his own motion and at any time hold an inquiry to ascertain whether such accident has occurred and whether any com-pensation payable under this Act is being paid.
The Commissioner may, before holding any inquiry under this section, require a preliminary investigation to be made by such public officer as he shall appoint in writing in that behalf into the circumstances of any accident resulting in injury to
Qr the death of any workman and for this purpose 41
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Recording of agreements
Workmen's Compensation the provisions of section 35 shall apply to such offer.
Any public officer appointed under para-graph (a) to make a preliminary investigation shall, upon completing the same, forward to the
Commissioner the record of such investigation and such record shall form part of the record of the
Commissioner.
The Commissioner may at any time, of his own motion, or on application made by or on be-half of the workman or the employer, reopen any inquiry held by him and may, by agreement with the workman and the employer, confirm, amend, vary or cancel any agreement previously reached.
The provisions of section 30 shall apply if agreement is not reached under paragraph (a).
Terms defined in s 3
arbitrator
Defined · s 3"arbitrator" means a person appointed by His Majesty by notification in the Gazette to be an arbitrator for workmen's compensation; the "Commissioner'' means the Commissioner of Labour appointed under section 3 of the Labour Act…
employer
Defined · s 3"employer" includes - (a) the Government; (b) any statutory body or authority; (c) any person or body of person whether in-corporate or not; (d) the legal personal representative of a de-ceased employer; and (e) in relation to a person employed for the pur-pose of any game or recreation and engaged or paid through a club, the manager or members of the managing committee of such club; and where the services of a workman are tempor-arily lent or let on hire to another person by the person with whom the workman has entered into a contract of employment, 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;