Section 50 Definition of work done on land.

The Compensation (Defence) Act, 1939, shall have effect and be deemed always to have had effect as if for subsection (2) of section seventeen thereof (which defines the expression the doing of work on land) there were substituted the following subsection—

“(2)

For the purposes of this Act, the doing of work on land means the doing of any work on, over or below the surface of the land, and, in particular, includes the making of any erection or excavation, the placing of any thing, and the maintenance, removal, demolition, pulling down, destruction or rendering useless of any thing, on, over or below that surface.”