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VCT-1997-R-48232
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Title_of_text
National Insurance (Employment Injury Benefits) Regulations, 1997 (SRO 6 of 1997).
Main Region
First Region
Country(ies)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Subjects (Classification)
Employment accident and occupational disease benefit
Adopted on (Date of text)
1997-03-03
Scope of text
National
Type of legislation (Type of text)
Regulation, Decree, Ordinance
Second Region
Abstract/Citation
PART I - PRELIMINARY
1. Citation
2. Interpretation
PART II - INJURY BENEFIT
3. Entitlement to and rate of Injury Benefit
4. Eligibility for Benefit
5. Claim for Injury Benefit
6. Duration of Injury Benefit
PART III - DISABLEMENT BENEFIT
7. Entitlement to and duration of benefit
8. Rate of disablement benefit
9. Increase for constant attendance
10. Assessment of extent of disablement
11. Successive accidents
PART IV - DEATH EXPENSES
12. Prescribed medical expenses
13. Payment of medical expenses during absence from State Medical expenses incurred outside State
14. Direct payment for medical expenses by Board
15. Refund of medical expenses to insured person.
PART V -DEATH BENEFIT
17. Meaning of "widow" and "widower"
18. Entitlement to death benefit
19. Registration of person as beneficiary.
20. Determination of weekly rate of death benefit
PART VI - FUNERAL GRANT
21. Entitlement to funeral grant
PART VII - APPLICATION TO CERTAIN OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES
22. Application to occupational diseases
23. Reference to single medical practitioner
PART VIII - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
24. Entitlement to more than one benefit
25. Refund of benefit improperly paid
26. Credited contributions
27. Persons absent abroad
28. Persons undergoing imprisonment or detention in legal custody
First Schedule: Rates of benefit
Second Schedule: Prescribed degrees of disablement
Third Schedule: Occupational diseases
Basic Text region
Basic text(s)
1986 (VCT-1986-L-54275)
National Insurance Act (Cap. 229).
Amending Text region
Amending text(s)
2013-12-05 (VCT-2013-L-105297)
National Insurance (Employment Injury Benefits) (Amendment) Regulations, 2013 (SRO 26 of 2013).
Electronic region
Electronic source title
Regulations on-line
Author
ILO Database of Caribbean Labour Legislation
URL
http://www.ilocarib.org.tt/projects/cariblex/stv_act5.shtml
File
VCT48232.pdf (PDF)
Electronic source title
Regulations on-line
Author
National Insurance Services
Country
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
URL
http://nissvg.org/
File
VCT48232 2005.pdf (PDF of Regulations as amended to SRO 21 of 2005)
Serial region
Serial title
Statutory Rules and Orders
Date
1997-03-04
Number
No. 6
Page range
28 p.