CAP. 282] Employees' Compensation [1988 Ed.
(a) a wife, husband, father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, step-father, stepmother, son, daughter, grandson, granddaughter, stepson, stepdaughter, brother, sister, half-brother, half-sister, daughter-in-law or sister-in-law and any such person is included whether the relationship is created by blood or by any adoption recognized as valid by the law of Hong Kong; and (Amended, 76 of 1982, s. 37)
(b) any other person who at the time of the injury resides with the employee as a member of his household; (Replaced, 55 of 1969, s. 3) "occupational disease" means any of the diseases specified in the second column of the Second Schedule and any recurrence or sequelae thereof; (Added, 19 of 1964, s. 3)
"Ordinary Assessment Board" means an Employees' Compensation (Ordinary Assessment) Board appointed under section 16D; (Added, 76 of 1982, s. 3) "outworker" means a person to whom articles or materials are given out to be made up, cleaned, washed, altered, ornamented, finished, or repaired, or adapted for sale in his own home or on other premises not under the control or management of the person who gave out the materials or articles;
"partial incapacity" means, where the incapacity is of a temporary nature, such incapacity as reduces the earning capacity of an employee in any employment in which he was engaged at the time of the accident resulting in the incapacity, and, where the incapacity is of a permanent nature, such incapacity (which may include disfigurement) as reduces his earning capacity, present or future, in any employment which he was capable of undertaking at that time; (Amended, 55 of 1969, s. 3 and 49 of 1985, s. 2)
"principal contractor" means a person referred to as a principal contractor in section 24; (Added, 76 of 1982, s. 3)
"registered dentist" means a dentist who is admitted to the register of dentists under section 9 of the Dentists Registration Ordinance (Cap.156); (Added, 74 of 1977, s. 2)
"Special Assessment Board" means an Employees' Compensation (Special Assessment) Board appointed under section 16E; (Added, 76 of 1982, s. 3)
"sub-contractor" means-
(a) any person who enters into a contract, express or implied, with a principal contractor to perform all or any part of the work which the principal contractor has undertaken to perform; and
(b) any other person who enters into a contract, express or implied, to perform all or any part of the work which a sub-contractor within the meaning of paragraph (a) has undertaken to perform; (Added, 76 of 1982, s. 3)
"total incapacity" means such incapacity whether of a temporary or permanent nature as incapacitates an employee for any employment which he was capable of undertaking at the time of the accident resulting in such incapacity. (Amended, 49 of 1985, s. 2)
(Amended, 44 of 1980, s. 15)