Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT 1951 - SECT 16

    (1)     This section applies to an individual (the timber contractor ) who is engaged by a person (the principal ) under a contract for services to do any of the following work:

        (a)     logging (including, for example, felling, crosscutting, snigging, loading, carting, bundling and debarking);

        (b)     felling or cutting trees for firewood;

        (c)     delivering timber or firewood;

        (d)     clearing timber, cutting scrub, preparing land for tree planting, planting trees, pruning trees or coppice cleaning.

    (2)     The timber contractor is taken to be a worker employed by the principal if—

        (a)     the work is for (or incidental to) the principal's trade or business; and

        (b)     the timber contractor personally does part or all of the work; and

        (c)     if the principal is a corporation—the timber contractor is not an executive officer of the corporation.

    (3)     This section applies whether the work is to be performed by the timber contractor—

        (a)     for the principal; or

        (b)     for someone (other than the principal) with whom the timber contractor has no contract to perform the work.