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(1) Proceedings for the recovery under this Act of compensation for an injury is not maintainable

(a) unless notice of the accident has been given by, or on behalf of, the employee within six months after the happening of the injury  and before the employee has voluntarily left the employment in which the employee was injured, and

(b) unless the application for the compensation with respect to the accident has been made within six months or, in the case of death, within six months from the time of death.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1),

(a) the want of, or a defect or an inaccuracy in, the notice is not  a bar to the maintenance of the proceedings,

(i) 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

(ii) if it is found in the proceedings for settling the claim that the defence of the employer is not, or would not, if a notice or an amended notice were then given and the hearing postponed, be prejudiced by the want, defect or inaccuracy, or

(iii) that the want, defect or inaccuracy was occasioned by mistake or any other reasonable cause;

(b) the failure to make an application within the period specified is not  a bar to the maintenance of the proceedings if it is found that the failure was occasioned by mistake or any other reasonable cause.

(3) Notice in respect of an injury under this Act shall be given as prescribed.