{"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":"19","heading":"Reference to Commissioners","text":"(1) If any question arises in any proceedings under this Act as to the liability of any person to pay compensation (including any question as to whether a person injured is or is not a [employee]) or as to the amount or duration of compensation (including any question as to the nature or extent of disablement), the question shall, in default of agreement, be settled by \"[a Commissioner]. (2) No Civil Court shall have jurisdiction to settle, decide or deal with any question which is by or under this Act required to be 'settled, decided or dealt with by a Commissioner or to enforce any liability incurred under this Act.","html":"<p>(1) If any question arises in any proceedings under this Act as to the liability of any person to pay compensation (including any question as to whether a person injured is or is not a [employee]) or as to the amount or duration of compensation (including any question as to the nature or extent of disablement), the question shall, in default of agreement, be settled by &quot;[a Commissioner]. (2) No Civil Court shall have jurisdiction to settle, decide or deal with any question which is by or under this Act required to be 'settled, decided or dealt with by a Commissioner or to enforce any liability incurred under this Act.</p>","words":110,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/employees-compensation-act-1923/section/19/","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."}