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Workmen's Compensation (Amendment) Act (No. 15 of 1990) - Sect 5

Amendment of section 6 of the principal enactment

5. Section 6 of the principal enactment is hereby amend ed as follows:
(i) by the repeal of paragraph (A) of subsection (1) thereof and the substitution of the following paragraph therefor :
" (A) where death results from the injury and the deceased was a workman in receipt of monthly wages falling within limits shown in the first Column of Schedule IV the amount shown against such limits in the second column thereof ";
(ii) by the repeal of paragraph (B) of subsection (1) thereof, and the substitution of the following paragraph therefor:
" (B) where permanent total disablement results from the injury, and the disabled workman was in receipt of monthly wages falling within limits shown in the first column of Schedule IV the amount shown against such limits in the third column thereof. " ; and
(iii) by the substitution in paragraph (D) of subsection (1) thereof, for all the words and figures from the beginning of that paragraph to the words "subject to a maximum of thirty rupees:" of the following:
" (D) where temporary disablement, whether total or partial, results from the injury, a half monthly payment payable on the sixteenth day after the expiry of a waiting period of three days from the date of the disablement, and thereafter half monthly, during the disablement or during a period of five years, whichever period is shorter, in the ease of a workman in receipt of monthly wages falling within limits shown in the first Column of Schedule IV of the sum shown against such limits in the Fourth Column thereof. ".


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