South Australian Consolidated Acts

WORKER'S LIENS ACT 1893 - SECT 4

4—Workers' liens

        (1)         A worker doing work for an owner or occupier, or for a contractor or sub-contractor for the benefit of an owner or occupier, shall have a lien for his wages for such work on the estate or interest in land of the owner or occupier in each of the following cases:

            (a)         Where the work is done with the assent, express or implied, of the owner or occupier to the land or to any fixture thereon:

            (b)         Where the work is done in or about the manufacture of materials which are, with the assent, express or implied, of the owner or occupier, used or intended to be used in or about work done, or intended to be done, to the land or to any fixture thereon.

        (2)         A worker employed upon land and doing work there for the owner or occupier thereof in connection with pastoral, agricultural, horticultural, or mining pursuits carried on upon such land shall have a lien on all goods on such land belonging to such owner or occupier, but such lien shall not avail against the title of a bona fide purchaser, mortgagee, pledgee, or incumbrancee without notice of such lien.

        (3)         A lien under this section shall be limited to four weeks' wages or wages for work not occupying more than four weeks, not exceeding in either case the sum of two hundred dollars.