{"act":{"id":"employees-compensation-act-1923","short_title":"The Employee’s Compensation Act, 1923","long_title":null,"act_number":"8","act_year":1923,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":null,"department":null,"jurisdiction":"Bihar","unit":"section","section_count":54,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"ocr","scan_url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/scan/17a23d70-1be8-493c-b790-5a34de728ce5.pdf","url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/employees-compensation-act-1923/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"13","heading":"Remedies of employer against stranger","text":"Where a\"[employee] has recovered compensation in respect of any injury caused under circumstances creating a legal liability of some person other than the person by whom the compensation was paid to pay damages in respect thereof, the person by whom the compensation was paid and any person who has been called on to pay an indemnity under section 12 shall be entitled to be indemnified by the person so liable to pay damages as aforesaid.","html":"<p>Where a&quot;[employee] has recovered compensation in respect of any injury caused under circumstances creating a legal liability of some person other than the person by whom the compensation was paid to pay damages in respect thereof, the person by whom the compensation was paid and any person who has been called on to pay an indemnity under section <a href=\"/employees-compensation-act-1923/section/12/\">12</a> shall be entitled to be indemnified by the person so liable to pay damages as aforesaid.</p>","words":75,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/employees-compensation-act-1923/section/13/","note":null,"source_note":"Read from the Government's own scanned gazette with Azure Document Intelligence, then split into sections by their numbering. India Code publishes no text for this Act. The scan itself is mirrored into our own storage and served at /scan/17a23d70-1be8-493c-b790-5a34de728ce5.pdf, so the reading here can be checked against the page it came from without depending on India Code's own copy staying where it is (it was at https://indiacode.gov.in/server/api/core/bitstreams/7df3415c-6e5c-4c3b-ae84-30f67965cd1f/content).","judgments_note":"Judgment holdings are the ratio decidendi as extracted from the order by eCourts India, reproduced unaltered. Reported judgments only.","licence":"Published with commentary and other original matter under s.52(1)(q)(ii), Copyright Act 1957."}