Section 12

No notice to the employer shall be necessary where a fatal accident has occurred.

The want of or any defect or inaccuracy in such notice shall not be a bar to the maintenance of such proceedings if the employer is proved to have had knowledge of the accident from any other source at or about the time of the accident, or if it is found in the proceedings for settling the claim that the employer is not, or would not be, if a notice or amended notice were then given and the hearing postponed, prejudiced in his defence by such want, defect or inaccuracy, or that such want, defect or inaccuracy was occasioned by mistake, absence from Malaysia or other reasonable cause.

The failure to make a claim within the period above specified shall not be a bar to the maintenance of such proceedings if it is found that the failure was occasioned by mistake, absence from

Malaysia or other reasonable cause.

Notice to the employer, or if there is more than one employer, to one of such employers, in respect of an injury maybe given either in writing or orally or to the foreman or other person under whose supervision the workman was employed, or to any person designated for the purpose by the employer, and shall state in ordinary language the cause of the injury and the date at which the accident happened.

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The notice if in writing may be given by delivering the same at, or sending it by registered post addressed to, the residence or place of business of the person to whom it is to be given.

Where the employer is a body of persons, corporate or unincorporate, the notice, if in writing, may be given by delivering it or by sending it by registered post addressed to the employer, at the office, or, if there be more than one office, any one of the offices, of such body.

The notice hereby required may be given by the Commissioner on behalf of any workman, and a notice so given shall have the same effect as if given by the workman himself.

Notice to Commissioner by employer