Section 3: Persons entitled to compensation

3. Persons entitled to compensation (1) The compensation shall be payable to or for the benefit of the workman, or where death results from the injury, to or for the benefit of his dependants as provided by this Act. (2) Where there are both total and partial dependants, nothing in this Act shall be construed as preventing the compensation being allotted partly to the total and partly to the partial dependants. (3) Where a dependant dies before an application under this Act is made, or where an application has been made, before an agreement or award has been arrived at or made, the heirs of that dependant, unless they were in any way dependent upon the wages of the deceased workman, shall have no right to payment of compensation, and the amount of compensation shall be calculated and apportioned as if that dependant had died before the workman.