This section shall apply to the following workers, namely:

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section 14 or section 15 of this Act, when an accident happens to a worker to whom this section applies, and his incapacity, whether total or partial, is permanent, his weekly earnings shall be deemed to be the weekly sum which, if he had not suffered the incapacity, he would probably have been able to earn after he had attained the age of twenty-one years, or had completed his apprenticeship, or had ceased to be an improver, or had become qualified as aforesaid, as the case may be, and his loss of earnings (if any) shall be deemed to be the amount by which that sum exceeds the weekly sum which he will probably be able to earn after attaining the age of twenty-one years, or on the completion of his apprenticeship, or on ceasing to be an improver, or on becoming qualified, as aforesaid.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section 14 or section 15 of this Act, when an accident happens to a worker to whom this section applies, then in respect of any period of temporary incapacity, whether total or partial, occurring after he has attained the age of twenty-one years, or has completed his apprenticeship, or has ceased to be an improver, or has become qualified as aforesaid, as the case may be, his weekly earnings shall be deemed to be a full working-week’s earnings (exclusive of any payment for overtime) at the ordinary rate of pay for the work in which the worker was employed at the commencement of that period of temporary incapacity:

“Provided that where the worker’s weekly earnings as so ascertained would be less than his average weekly earnings, his weekly earnings, instead of being so ascertained, shall be deemed to be his average weekly earnings:

“Provided further that where the worker’s weekly earnings ascertained in accordance with this section would be less than his weekly earnings ascertained in accordance with section 15 of this Act, his weekly earnings shall be ascertained in accordance with the said section 15.

In the first proviso to subsection (3) of this section the expression ‘average weekly earnings’ has the same meaning as in subsection (6) of section 15 of this Act as if for the words ‘the accident’ wherever they occur in the said subsection (6) there were substituted in each case the words ‘the commencement of the period of temporary incapacity’.”

There shall be paid to the Judge of the Compensation Court out of the Consolidated Revenue Account, without further appropriation than this section, a salary at the rate of four thousand one hundred pounds a year, together with such travelling allowances as may be fixed from time to time by the Governor-General:

“Provided that, while the person holding office as the Judge of that Court on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and sixty-four, continues to hold that office, his salary shall be at the rate of four thousand seven hundred pounds a year.

The salary of the Judge shall not be diminished during the continuance of his appointment.”

Where in the opinion of the Board, on consideration of the accident experience of an employer as compared with the general accident experience of employers in his class of business, the safety of his workers is not ensured as adequately as the safety of workers employed by employers in that class of business is in general ensured, the Board may impose an extra charge to be made in assessing the premium payable by that employer for any period:

“Provided that the total premium payable by the employer shall not exceed by more than a hundred per cent the premium computed at the maximum rate for the time being prescribed under section 90 of this Act:

“Provided further that, where an extra charge has been imposed by the Board under this section, that charge shall be imposed on a premium computed at the maximum rate for the time being prescribed under section 90 of this Act.

Where the Board has imposed an extra charge under this section, every authorised insurer commits an offence against this Part of this Act who, in respect of any contract of insurance with the employer, charges a premium that is less than the premium computed at the appropriate maximum rate for the time being prescribed under section 90 of this Act increased by the amount of the extra charge imposed under this section.”