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Supplements to workmen's compensation payments.
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24.—(1) Regulations shall provide for conferring on persons who—
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(a) are or have been on or after the 1st day of October, 1965, entitled in respect of any injury or disease to weekly payments by way of compensation under the Workmen's Compensation Acts, and
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(b) as the result of the injury or disease are, or could for the purpose of the provisions of this Act relating to unemployability supplement be treated as being, incapable of work and likely to remain permanently so incapable,
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the like right to payments under this Act by way of unemployability supplement and the like right to payments under this Act in respect of a child or adult dependant as if the injury or disease were one in respect of which a disablement pension were for the time being payable.
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(2) Regulations shall also provide for conferring on persons who—
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(a) are or have been on or after the 1st day of October, 1965, entitled in respect of any injury or disease to weekly payments by way of compensation under the Workmen's Compensation Acts, and
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(b) as the result of that injury or disease require constant attendance,
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the like right to payments under this Act in respect of the need of constant attendance as if the injury or disease were one in respect of which a disablement pension were for the time being payable in respect of an assessment of one hundred per cent.
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(3) Such regulations may further provide for applying, in relation to payments under this section, the provisions of the Acts relating to benefit and to the making of claims and the determination of claims and questions in so far as those provisions apply in relation to an unemployability supplement, to an increase of a disablement pension in respect of a child or adult dependant, or to an increase of a disablement pension in respect of the need of constant attendance, as the case may be, subject to any additions or modifications.
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(4) No payment shall be made under this section in respect of any period before the appointed day.
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(5) All payments under this section shall be paid out of the Occupational Injuries Fund.
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