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WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION ACT, 1900.* 
(03 GON Wage b. 22, 
The Board of Agriculture desire to call attention to the 
provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1900, the 
object of which is to extend to workmen in agriculture the 
benefits of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1897. The 
new Act comes into operation on ist July, 1901; and if, on 
or after that date, any personal injury by accident, arising 
out of, and in the course of, employment in agriculture, is 
caused to a workman, his employer will be liable to pay 
him compensation, subject to certain provisions referred to 
below. But no employer is liable to pay compensation 
under the Act unless he habitually employs one or more 
workmen in agriculture. 
The term “workman” includes every person who is 
engaged in agriculture, whether by way of manual labour 
or otherwise, and whether his agreement is one of service, 
or apprenticeship, or otherwise, and is expressed or implied 
is oral or in writing. 
5) 
The expression “ agriculture” includes horticulture, 
forestry, and the use of land for any purpose of husbandry, 
inclusive of the keeping or breeding of live stock, poultry, 
or bees, and the growth of fruit and vegetables. It should 
be observed that this definition is very wide in its terms, and 
that the Act, therefore, imposes a lability not only upon 
farmers and other persons engaged in agriculture, in the 
more limited and ordinary sense of that expression, but also 
upon many other persons, as, for instance, persons who 
habitually employ one or more gardeners or others in garden- 


* Copies of this article in leaflet form may be obtained on application to the 
e cretary, Board of Agriculture, 4, Whitehall Place, S.W. 
