Western Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

WORKMEN'S WAGES ACT 1898 - SECT 14

14 .         On failure to pay, workman may sue person served with notice

                If the employer served with notice of attachment and order for payment shall fail to pay as aforesaid, the workman may sue for and recover in his own name in any Court having jurisdiction in the matter the moneys attached by any proceeding which the contractor might have taken had there been no attachment under this Act, subject to the right of the employer to set off against the workman’s demand all moneys properly paid by the employer to the contractor under the contract prior to the service of the notice of attachment, and also all moneys which the contractor was at the time of the service of the notice of attachment liable to pay to the employer under the contract, or in consequence of any breach or non-performance thereof.