A-3 - Workers’ Compensation Act

Section 109 Disposition versions

1979-01-01

109. (1)  Where an employer engages in any of the industries designated by regulation and has not been assessed in respect of it, the Commission, if it is of opinion that the industry is to be carried on only temporarily, may require the employer to pay or to give security for the payment to the Commission of a sum equal to the assessment for which he would have been liable if the industry had been in operation when the next preceding assessment was made.

(2)  The Commission shall have the same powers and be entitled to the same remedies for enforcing payment from the employer of such sum as it possesses or is entitled to for enforcing payment of assessments.

(3)  (Subsection repealed).

R. S. 1964, c. 159, s. 103; 1978, c. 57, s. 1, s. 59.

1977-12-31

109. (1)  Where an employer engages in any of the industries included in Schedule B and has not been assessed in respect of it, the Commission, if it is of opinion that the industry is to be carried on only temporarily, may require the employer to pay or to give security for the payment to the Commission of a sum equal to the assessment for which he would have been liable if the industry had been in operation when the next preceding assessment was made.

(2)  The Commission shall have the same powers and be entitled to the same remedies for enforcing payment from the employer of such sum as it possesses or is entitled to for enforcing payment of assessments.

(3)  An employer who refuses or neglects to comply with the provisions of subsection 1 of this section shall be liable, in addition to costs, to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, and an additional fine not exceeding twenty dollars per day for every day on which the default continues.

R. S. 1964, c. 159, s. 103.