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B-6 - Blind Workmen’s Compensation Act

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Repealed on 10 February 2015
CHAPTER B-6
Blind Workmen’s Compensation Act
Repealed: R.S.N.B. 2014, Schedule A.
Definitions
1In this Act
“blind workman” means a workman as defined by the definition “worker” in the Workers’ Compensation Act and possessing in his better eye a central actual acuity either with or without glasses not greater than 6-60 or 20-200(Snellen);(travailleur aveugle)
“Board” Repealed: 1994, c.70, s.2
“Commission” means the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Commission;(Commission)
“employer” means an employer as defined by the Workers’ Compensation Act who has in his employ a blind workman;(employeur)
“full cost of compensation” means compensation payable under or by virtue of Part I of the Workers’ Compensation Act by reason of a blind workman meeting with an accident for which he would be entitled to compensation under that Act, and includes the capitalized sum or present value of the sum required as determined by the Commission to provide for future payments of compensation to the workman or his dependents;(montant total de l’indemnité)
“Institute” means The Canadian National Institute for the Blind.(Institut)
R.S., c.20, s.1; 1981, c.80, s.29, 30, 31; 1994, c.70, s.2
Contribution to Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Commission
2Where the full cost of compensation exceeds the sum of fifty dollars and where the industry comes under Part I of the Workers’ Compensation Act, the Minister of Finance shall pay to the Commission from the Consolidated Fund the excess of the full cost of compensation over and above the sum of fifty dollars which payment or payments shall be credited by the Commission to the Accident Fund under the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Commission Act.
R.S., c.20, s.2; O.C.67-164; 1981, c.80, s.29; 1994, c.70, s.2
Award to blind workman
3In making any award to a blind workman for injury by accident under the Workers’ Compensation Act, the Commission may have regard to any previous awards made to him for injury under that Act.
R.S., c.20, s.3; 1981, c.80, s.29; 1994, c.70, s.2
Assessment of employer of blind workman
4The assessment on any employer to be levied by the Commission in respect of the wages of a blind workman may be fixed by the Commission at such amount as may be deemed fair, having regard to the provisions of the Workers’ Compensation Act.
R.S., c.20, s.4; 1981, c.80, s.29; 1994, c.70, s.2
Designation of work for blind workman
5(1)Subject to the provisions of subsection (2), the Institute shall have exclusive jurisdiction as to the nature of the work a blind workman may perform and as to the proper placement of such workman.
5(2)Upon the recommendation of the Commission the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may designate any other organization or institution to execute the powers and perform the duties assigned to the Institute under this Act and thereupon this Act shall be read as though the name of such other organization or institution were substituted for the Institute.
R.S., c.20, s.5; 1994, c.70, s.2
Loss of benefits by employer
6Where, without the approval of the institute an employer gives employment to a blind workman or where without such approval an employer changes the nature of such employment, the employer shall be deemed to have waived all right to any benefits of this Act in respect of injury to such blind workman.
R.S., c.20, s.6
Access to place of work of blind workman
7Every officer of the Institute shall have a right of access at all reasonable times to the place of employment of a blind workman.
R.S., c.20, s.7
Certificates for Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Commission
8The Institute shall provide the Commission, upon request, with all such certificates or other material as may be required by the Commission in the fulfilment of its duties.
R.S., c.20, s.8; 1994, c.70, s.2
N.B. This Act is consolidated to February 9, 2015.