an injury which results in partial incapacity of a permanent nature, which does not incapacitate the workman for a period of at least three con- secutive days from earning full wages at the work at which he was employed; and
(b) if it is proved that the injury to a workman is attributable to the serious and wilful miscon- duct of that workman, or that an injury by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment is deliberately aggravated by the workman, any compensation claimed in respect of that injury shall be disallowed: except that where the injury results in death or serious incapacity, the Court on consideration of all the circumstances may award the compensation pro- vided by this Ordinance or such part thereof as it shall think it.": and
(6) by inserting, after subsection (4), the following new sub-
sections
"(5) When a workman meets with an accident--
(a) while, with the consent of his employer. being trained in first aid, ambulance or rescue work or engaged in any competition or exercise în connexion therewith:
(b) in, at or about any premises other than his employer's while, with the consent of his employer, engaged in any first aid, ambu- lance, or rescue work or in any competition or exercise in connexion therewith; or
(2) in, at or about his employer's premises while engaged in any first aid, ambulance or rescue work,
whereby such workman sustains injury such injury shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed to arise out of and in the course of his employment, notwithstanding that in the case of rescue work the workman was acting in contravention of any statutory or other regulation applicable to his employment, or of any orders given by or on behalf of his employer,
6.
or that he was acting without instructions from his employer, if when such act was done the workman reasonably acted in order to rescue, succour or protect any other person who had suffered, or who was reasonably believed to be in danger of, injury. or to avert or minimize serious damage to property of the employer.
(6) For the purposes of this Ordinance an accident arising in the course of a workman's em- ployment shall be deemed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, also to have arisen out of that employment.".
Section 6 of the principal Ordinance is amended-
(a) by deleting paragraph (4) and substituting the follow-
ing-
"() if the workman leaves any dependants wholly dependent on his earnings, the amount of com- pensation shall-
(i) where the accident happens before the 1st day of May 1965, be a sum equal to thirty-six months' carnings or ten thousand dollars, which- ever is less;
(i) where the accident happens on or after the 1st day of May 1965 and before the 1st day of January 1970, be a sum equal to thirty-six months' earnings or eighteen thousand dollars, whichever is less; or
(iii) where the accident happens on or after the 1st day of January 1970, be a sum equal to thirty-six months' earnings or forty-five thousand dollars, whichever is less:
Provided that in no case shall the sum pay- able under this sub-paragraph be less than seven thousand two hundred dollars;
but where in respect of the same accident com- pensation has been paid under the provisions of section 7. 7A or 8, there shall be deducted from the sum payable under this paragraph any sums so paid as compensation:*:
Amendment of section 6.