periodical payments: provided that it may be wholly or partially paid in a lump sum, if the competent authority is satisfied that it will be properly utilised.
Please state whether the compensation payable in the case of an accident resulting in permanent incapacity or death is paid to the injured person or his dependants in the form of a pension.
If the compensation may be wholly or partially paid in a lump sum, please state what authority is competent to decide that the payment shall be made in a lump sum and what guarantees for the proper utilisation of the compensation are usually required.
ARTICLE 6
In case of incapacity, compensation shall be paid not later than as from the fifth day after the accident, whether it be payable by the employer, the accident insurance institution, or the sickness insurance institution concerned.
Please state:
(a) as from what day after the accident compensation is paid in the case of incapacity:
(b) by whom the compensation is payable: the employer, an accident insurance institution or a sickness insurance institution.
ARTICLE 7
In cases where the injury results in incapacity of such a nature that the injured workman must have the constant help of another person, additional compensation shall be provided.
Please state under what conditions additional compensation is paid to workmen injured in such a way as to require the constant help of another person, and the amount of such additional compensation.
ARTICLE 8
The national laws or regulations shall prescribe such measures of supervision and methods of review as are deemed necessary.
Please indicate the legislative provisions dealing with measures of supervision and methods of review of compensation.
In particular, please state whether review may take place at any time or at specified intervals, and the time limit, if any, after which compensation is no longer subject to review.
ARTICLE 9
Injured workmen shall be entitled to medical aid and to such surgical and phar- maceutical aid as is recognised to be necessary in consequence of accidents. The cost of such aid shall be defrayed either by the employer, by accident insurance institutions, or by sickness or invalidity insurance institutions.
Please state:
(a) the nature and duration of the medical, surgical and pharmaceutical aid to which injured workmen are entitled;
(b) from whom such aid is due.
ARTICLE 10
Injured workmen shall be entitled to the supply and normal renewal, by the employer or insurer, of such artificial limbs and surgical appliances as are recognised to be necessary: provided that national laws or regulations may allow in exceptional circumstances the supply and renewal of such artificial limbs and appliances to be replaced by the award to the injured workmen of a sum representing the probable cost of the supply and renewal of such appliances, this sum to be decided at the time when the amount of compensation is settled or revised.