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Workers' Compensation Act (amended)

BILL NO. 29

(as introduced)

2nd Session, 62nd General Assembly
Nova Scotia
63 Elizabeth II, 2014



Private Member's Bill



Workers' Compensation Act
(amended)



Chuck Porter
Hants West



First Reading: October 9, 2014

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

Explanatory Note

This Bill removes the limitation of 5 years, from the happening of an accident or a worker learning that he or she suffers from an occupational disease, for the worker to apply to the Workers' Compensation Board for an extension of time for filing a claim.

An Act to Amend Chapter 10
of the Acts of 1994-95,
the Workers' Compensation Act

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 Subsection 83(6) of Chapter 10 of the Acts of 1994-95, the Workers' Compensation Act, is repealed.

 


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