Accidents or prescribed diseases or injuries in course of illegal employment

(1) Where a claim for a benefit is made under this Act in respect of any accidental injury or of any prescribed disease or injury the Chief Executive Officer may determine for the purpose of this Act that the relevant employment shall in relation to that accident or disease be treated as having been insurable employment notwithstanding that by reason of a contravention of or non-compliance with some provisions contained in or having effect under any enactment passed for the protection of persons in employment or any class of such persons, the contract purporting to govern the employment was void or the person employed was not lawfully employed therein at the time when or in the place where the accident happened or the disease developed. (2) In this section the expression “relevant employment” means, in relation to an accident, the employment out of and in the course of which the accident arises, and in relation to a prescribed disease or injury, the employment to the nature of which the disease or injury is due.