Western Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

WORKMEN'S WAGES ACT 1898 - SECT 7

7 .         Workmen whose wages are in arrear may attach moneys in hands of employer

                Any workman whose wages remain unpaid for 3 days after they become payable and have been demanded may, within 7 days, make a statutory declaration of the amount of wages due, and serve the same upon the employer, and may serve the employer, or his attorney or agent, with a notice of attachment in the Form No. 1 set forth in the Schedule, or to the effect thereof; and upon service thereof all moneys due and thereafter to become due and payable to the contractor shall be attached, and shall be retained by the employer until the Court in which the claim is heard shall direct to whom and in what manner the same are to be paid.

                But any employer may pay into the aforesaid Court the sum mentioned in the notice of attachment, if such sum is an ascertained and fixed sum, and the receipt of the Registrar of such Court for the said sum shall be a full discharge to the employer of his liability under the attachment.

        [Section 7 amended by No. 59 of 2004 s. 141.]