Section 17

Any half-monthly payments may, by agreement between the workman and the employer consented to and recorded by the

Commissioner, or, if the workman and the employer cannot agree or the Commissioner does not consent and the payments have been continued for not less than six months, on application to the Arbitrator, be commuted into a lump sum to be paid instead of such half-monthly payments of such amount as may be agreed to by the parties and consented to by the Commissioner or determined by the Arbitrator, as the case may be.