Worker's Liens Act 1893

A worker shall have a charge on any money payable to the contractor or sub-contractor by whom he is employed for his wages in respect of work done for the purposes of the contract of such contractor or sub-contractor.

A sub-contractor shall have a charge on any money payable to the contractor or sub-contractor with whom he shall have contracted for that portion of the contract price payable to the first-mentioned sub-contractor in respect of work done or materials furnished or manufactured for the purposes of the contract of such contractor or secondly mentioned sub-contractor.

A charge under this section shall attach only to money payable under the contract for the purposes of which the work or materials have been done, supplied, or manufactured, and shall lapse unless an action be brought to enforce the same within twenty-eight days after the wages or contract price in respect of which such charge has arisen shall have become due within the meaning of section 10, subsection (2). Such action shall not be discontinued without the consent of the defendant or an order of the court, and the court on making such order may declare that any charge claimed does not exist or order that it shall forthwith lapse, or that the plaintiff have further time to bring a fresh action to enforce the charge.

The charge of a worker under this section shall be limited to four weeks' wages or wages for work not occupying more than four weeks, not exceeding in either case the sum of two hundred dollars.

A charge under this section shall not avail as to any moneys bona fide paid over without notice of such charge.