Section 25: Local authorities

25. Local authorities (1) In the application of this Act to workmen in the employment of a local authority, the exercise and performance by it of its powers and duties conferred and imposed by enactment, shall be regarded as the trade, business, or undertaking of that authority. (2) Section 24 shall apply in the same way as it applies to the State in respect of a workman in the employment of a local authority, where provision exists by enactment for the grant of a pension or gratuity to the workman in the case of an injury received by him in the discharge of his duties, or to any other person in the event of the workman’s death resulting from the injury. (3) In this section, “local authority” has the same meaning as in the Local Government Act. [S. 25 amended by Act 48 of 1991; s. 165 (24) of Act 36 of 2011 w.e.f. 15 December 2011.]