<P> The Workmen's Compensation Act 1897 was British law in operation from 1897 to 1946 . Great Britain followed the German model . Joseph Chamberlain, leader of the Liberal Unionist party and in coalition with the Conservatives, designed a plan that was enacted under the Salisbury government in 1897 . The Act was a key domestic achievement . It served its social purpose at no cost to the government, since compensation was paid for by insurance which employers were required to take out to pay for medical costs of injuries on the job . It replaced the Employers' Liability Act 1880, which gave the injured worker the right to sue the employer but put the burden of proof on the employee . After 1897, injured employees had only to show that they had been injured on the job . These are roughly the same rights German workers were awarded in their 1884 law . The Act was replaced by an expanded scheme under the Workmen's Compensation Act 1906 . </P> <P> A "workman" was defined as, </P>

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