Work Injury Compensation (Amendment) Regulations 2014

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 02 Jan 2014

No. S 6

Work Injury Compensation Act

(CHAPTER 354)

Work Injury Compensation
(Amendment) Regulations 2014

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 45 of the Work Injury Compensation Act, Mr Tan Chuan‑Jin, Senior Minister of State, charged with the responsibility of the Minister for Manpower, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Work Injury Compensation (Amendment) Regulations 2014 and shall come into operation on 6th January 2014.

Amendment of regulation 3

2. Regulation 3 of the Work Injury Compensation Regulations (Rg 1) is amended —

(a)

by deleting paragraph (1) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(1) Every employer shall give a notice in writing to the Commissioner and the employer’s insurer —

(a)	of any accident which results in the death of any employee of the employer, not later than 10 days after the date of the accident;
(b)	of any accident which results in an incapacity that renders any employee of the employer unfit for work for more than 3 days (consecutive or otherwise) as certified by a registered medical practitioner, not later than 10 days after the 3rd day of such unfitness for work;
(c)	of any accident which results in any employee of the employer being admitted in a hospital for at least 24 hours for observation or treatment, not later than 10 days after the date of the accident; and
(d)	of any occupational disease referred to in section 4(1) of the Act contracted by any employee of the employer, not later than 10 days after the date on which he contracted such occupational disease.”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after the words “paragraph (1)(b)” in paragraph (3), the words “or (c)”.

[G.N. No. S 198/2012]

Made this 2nd day of January 2014.

LOH KHUM YEAN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[HQ/Legis/WICA SL; AG/LLRD/SL/354/2010/2 Vol. 1]

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