BILL NO. 155

(as introduced)

2nd Session, 58th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
51 Elizabeth II, 2002

Government Bill

Workers' Compensation Act (amended)

The Honourable David Morse
Minister of Environment and Labour

First Reading: November 19, 2002

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading: November 19, 2002

Third Reading: November 28, 2002 (LINK TO BILL AS PASSED)

This Bill increases, effective October 1, 2002, the supplementary benefits for workers injured before March 23, 1990, who suffered a permanent partial disability.

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 Subsection 227(4) of Chapter 10 of the Acts of 1994-95, the Workers' Compensation Act, as amended by Chapter 1 of the Acts of 1999, is further amended by

(a) striking out clause (c) and substituting the following clause:

(c) has a personal income below one half the average industrial wage for Nova Scotia as prescribed by regulation;

and

(b) striking out "the amount of a full monthly pension for old age security pursuant to section 3 of the Old Age Security Act (Canada)" in the last three lines and substituting "one half of the average industrial wage for Nova Scotia as prescribed by regulation".

2 Section 1 has effect on and after October 1, 2002.