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Unit 9: Social Security Legislations

(3) The receipt of the Commissioner shall be a sufficient discharge in respect of any Notes
compensation deposited with him.
(4) On the deposit of any money under sub-section (1), as compensation in respect of a deceased
workman, the Commissioner shall, if he thinks necessary, cause notice to be published or
to be served on each dependant in such manner as he thinks fit, calling upon the dependents
to appear before him on such date as he may fix for determining the distribution of the
compensation. If the Commissioner is satisfied after any enquiry which he may deem
necessary, that no dependant exists, he shall repay the balance of the money to the employer
by whom it was paid. The Commissioner shall, on application by the employer, furnish a
settlement showing in detail all disbursements made.
(5) Compensation deposited in respect of a deceased workman shall, subject to any deduction
made under sub-section (4), be apportioned among the dependents of the deceased workman
or any of them in such proportion as the Commissioner thinks fit, or may, in the discretion
of the Commissioner, be allotted to any one dependant.
(6) Where any compensation deposited with the Commissioner is payable to any person, the
Commissioner shall, if the person to whom the compensation is payable is not a woman
or a person under a legal disability, and may, in other cases, pay the money to the person
entitled thereto.

(7) Where any lump sum deposited with the Commissioner is payable to a woman or a
person under a legal disability, such sum may be invested, applied or otherwise dealt
with for the benefit of the woman, or of such person during his disability, in such manner
as the Commissioner may direct; and where a half-monthly payment is payable to any
person under a legal disability, the Commissioner may, on his own motion or on an
application made to him in this behalf, order that the payment be made during the disability
to any dependant of the workman or to any other person whom the Commissioner thinks
best fitted to provide for the welfare of the workman.
(8) Where, on application made to him in this behalf or otherwise, the Commissioner is
satisfied that, on account of neglect of children on the party of a parent or on account of
neglect of children on the part of a parent or on account of the variation of the circumstances
of any dependant or for any other sufficient cause, an order of the Commissioner as to the
distribution of any sum paid as compensation or as to the manner in which any sum
payable to any such dependant is to be invested, applied or otherwise dealt with, ought to
be varied, the Commissioner may make such orders for the variation of the former order
as he thinks just in the circumstances of the case.
(9) Provided that no such order prejudicial to any person shall be made, unless such person
has been given an opportunity of showing cause why the order should not be made, or
shall be made in any case in which it would involve the repayment by a dependant of any
sum already paid to him.
(10) Where the Commissioner varies any order under sub-section (8) by reason of the fact that
payment of compensation to any person has been obtained by fraud, impersonation or
other improper means, any amount so paid to or on behalf of such person may be recovered
in the manner hereinafter provided in section 31.

Registration of Agreements

1. Where the amount of any lump-sum payable as compensation has been settled by an
agreement, whether by way of redemption of a half-monthly payment or otherwise, or
where any compensation has been so settled as being payable to a woman or a person

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