Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act, 1993 (Act No. 130 of 1993)Chapter V : Claims for compensation38. Notice of accident by employee to employer |
| (1) | Written or verbal notice of an accident shall, as soon as possible after such accident happened, be given by or on behalf of the employee concerned to the employer, and notice of the accident may also be given as soon as possible to the commissioner in the prescribed manner. |
| (2) | Failure to give notice to an employer as required in subsection (1) shall not bar a right to compensation if it is proved that the employer had knowledge of the accident from any other source at or about the time of the accident. |
| (3) | Subject to section 43, failure to give notice to an employer as required in subsection (1), or any error or inaccuracy in such notice, shall not bar a right to compensation if in the opinion of the Director-General— |
| (a) | the compensation fund or the employer or mutual association concerned, as the case may be, is not or would not be seriously prejudiced by such failure, error or inaccuracy if notice is then given or the error or inaccuracy is corrected; |
| (b) | such failure, error or inaccuracy was caused by an oversight, absence from the Republic or other reasonable cause. |
| (4) | If a seaman or airman meets with an accident, the person in command or the owner of the ship or aircraft, as the case may be, shall for the purposes of this section and sections 39, 40, 41 and 43 be deemed to be the employer. |