Western Australian Current Acts

CONSPIRACY AND PROTECTION OF PROPERTY ACT OF 1900 - SECT 6

6 .         Penalty for neglect by master to provide food, clothing, etc., for servant or apprentice

                Where a master, being legally liable to provide for his servant or apprentice necessary food, clothing, medical aid, or lodging, wilfully, and without lawful excuse, refuses or neglects to provide the same, whereby the health of the servant or apprentice is or is likely to be seriously or permanently injured, he shall, on summary conviction, be liable to pay a penalty not exceeding $40.

        [Section 6 amended: No. 113 of 1965 s. 8; No. 51 of 1992 s. 16(1); No. 50 of 2003 s. 48(2); No. 8 of 2009 s. 36.]

[ 7 and 8.         Deleted: 1 and 2 Edw. VII No. 14 s. 3.]

[ 9, 10.         Deleted: No. 59 of 2004 s. 141.]