Section 6: Interpretation of “employer”

6. Interpretation of “employer” (1) In this Act, “employer” includes any person or body of persons corporate or unincorporate and the heirs of a deceased employer, and, where the services of a workman are temporarily lent or let on hire to another person by the person with whom the workman has entered into a contract of service or apprenticeship, the latter shall, subject to section 7 (1), be deemed to continue to be the employer of the workman whilst he is working for that other person. (2) In relation to a person employed for the purposes of any game or recreation and engaged or paid by a club, the manager or members of the managing committee of the club shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be the employer.