Notice of Accidents Act 1894

1 Notice to Board of Trade of accidents in certain employments.

(1) Where there occurs in any employment to which this section applies any accident which causes to any person employed therein either loss of life or such bodily injury as to prevent him on any one of the three working days next after the occurrence of the accident from being employed for five hours on his ordinary work, his employer shall, as soon as possible and, in case of an accident not resulting in death, not later than sis days after the occurrence of the accident, send to the Board of Trade notice in Writing of the accident, specifying the time and place of its occurrence, its probable cause, the name and residence of any person killed or injured, the work on which any such person was employed at the time of the accident, and, in the case of an injury, the nature of the injury.

(2) If any person wilfully makes default in complying with the requirements of this section he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding forty shillings.

(3) For the purpose of this section the expression " working " day " shall mean a day on which the person injured would, but for the injury, be employed in his ordinary work,