Work Injury Compensation Regulations 2008

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1 Citation and commencement

3 Notice of accident

4 Making of report by employee or dependant

5 Inquiry by Commissioner after report made

6 Objection to notice of assessment

7 Commissioner to fix date, time and place of pre-hearing conferences and hearing

8 Failure of one or more parties to appear at hearing

9 Procedure during proceedings

10 Procedure in connected cases

13 Exemption from payment of costs and fees

14 When representative must be appointed

15 When new representative to be appointed

16 Calculation of earnings

17 Order for withholding of periodical payments pending decision

18 Procedure on application for commutation

19 Examination when employee and medical practitioner both on premises

20 Examination in other cases

21 Examination after suspension of right to compensation

22 Cost of conveyance to approved hospital

23 Approved hospitals

24 Application of this Part

25 Cost of transmission may be deducted

26 Commissioner may order transfer of compensation

27 Memorandum of case

28 Procedure for dealing with compensation

29 Memorandum and compensation to be forwarded to competent authority

30 Procedure on receipt of returned sum

31 Commissioner to receive transferred compensation

32 Disposal of transferred compensation

33 Provisions of Act and Regulations to apply to transferred compensation

34 Manner in which compensation may be invested under section 9

35 Discharge of employer’s liability on receipt of compensation

37 Prescribed occupational disease

38 Payment of interest

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No. S 165

Work Injury Compensation Act

(Chapter 354)

Work Injury Compensation Regulations 2008

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 45 of the Work Injury Compensation Act, the Minister for Manpower hereby makes the following Regulations:

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Work Injury Compensation Regulations 2008 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2008.

Definition

2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, “transferring authority of a territory outside Singapore” means the authority in a territory outside Singapore which transfers or causes to be transferred any lump sum awarded under the law in any such territory relating to work injury compensation and applicable for the benefit of any person residing or about to reside in Singapore.

Made this 31st day of March 2008.

LEO YIP

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[WPSD/3:2/C; AG/LEG/SL/354/2003/1 Vol. 1]