Work Injury Compensation (Workers’ Fund) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 26 Dec 2024

No. S 1020

Work Injury Compensation Act 2019

Work Injury Compensation
(Workers’ Fund)
(Amendment) Regulations 2024

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 82 of the Work Injury Compensation Act 2019, the Minister for Manpower makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Work Injury Compensation (Workers’ Fund) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 and come into operation on 1 January 2025.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. In the Work Injury Compensation (Workers’ Fund) Regulations 2020 (G.N. No. S 730/2020) (called in these Regulations the principal Regulations), in regulation 2, in the definition of “injured worker”, after “employee”, insert “or a platform worker”.

Amendment of regulation 3

3. In the principal Regulations, in regulation 3(c), replace “section 16(5) or 17(5)” with “section 16(5), 17(5), 34M(5) or 34N(6)”.

Amendment of regulation 5

4. In the principal Regulations, in regulation 5 —

(a)

in paragraph (1), replace sub‑paragraph (a) with —

“(a)

subject to paragraph (2), to make ex gratia payments to —

(i)	any injured worker;
(ii)	any person to whom money deposited with the Commissioner may be paid in accordance with section 21(2)(a) to (d) of the Act; or
(iii)	any person to whom money deposited with the Commissioner may be paid in accordance with section 21(2)(a) to (d), as modified by section 34B, of the Act;”;

(b)

in paragraph (2), replace sub‑paragraph (b) with —

“(b)	where an employer or a platform operator has failed to pay work injury compensation to an employee or a platform worker (as the case may be) under the Act;”;

(c)

in paragraph (2)(c), replace the full‑stop at the end with a semi‑colon;

(d)

in paragraph (2), after sub‑paragraph (c), insert —

“(d)

to defray medical expenses incurred by or on behalf of the platform worker on or after 1 January 2025 in respect of an occupational disease specified in the Schedule contracted by the platform worker — if the platform worker’s claim for work injury compensation under the Act has failed by reason only that the platform worker had contracted the occupational disease after the expiry of the relevant limitation period.”;

(e)

in paragraph (3), after “paragraph (2)(c)”, insert “and (d)”; and

(f)

in paragraph (3)(a), after “section 10(1)(b)”, insert “or 34G(1)(b)”.

Amendment of Schedule

5. In the principal Regulations, in the Schedule, in the Schedule reference, after “Regulation 5(2)(c)”, insert “and (d)”.

Made on 19 December 2024.

JEFFREY SIOW CHEN SIANG

Second Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[HQ/Legis/WICA/SL/Jan2025_4; AG/LEGIS/SL/354/2020/6]

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