Addition of new section 36A.
Amendment of
section 37,
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() the amounts paid in commissions to agents.
and
(e) the income and expenditure in relation to insurance of employers under this Part, and shall transmit any such statistics and information to the Commissioner upon demand or at such times as he may direct.
(2) The statistics and information required to be kept under subsection (1) shall be kept separate from statistics and information relating to any other busi ness carried on.
(3) Any authorized insurer who contravenes any of the provisions of this section or fails to transmit to the Commissioner any statistics and information under this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars.".
26. The principal Ordinance is amended by adding, after section 36, the following new section--
"Contract of service
not to be terminated during incapacity.
364. (1) An employer shall not, without the consent of the Commissioner, terminate the contract of service or apprenticeship of a workman who has suffered incapacity in circumstances which entitle him to compensation under the provisions of this Ordin- ance until either
(a) the workman has been certified by a medical practitioner as fit to resume the work for which he was employed at the time of the accident; or
(b) compensation for permanent incapacity, whether total or partial, becomes payable to the workman under the provisions of this Ordinance.
(2) Any employer who contravenes any of the provisions of subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars.".
27. Section 37 of the principal Ordinance is amended, ia subsection (1),—
(a) by deleting, in paragraph (b), "carrying on in the Colony the business of insuring employers against their liabilities under this Ordinance"; and
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(b) by inserting, after paragraph (b), the following new
paragraph-
"(ba) prescribing conditions subject to which an insurance company may carry on accident insurance business in the Colony:".
28. The First Schedule to the principal Ordinance is amended
(a) in the third column,—
(1) by deleting "60" where it occurs opposite to item 8 and substituting the following-
"65":
(ii) by deleting "50" where it occurs opposite to item 9 and substituting the following-
"62***
(iii) by deleting "474" where it occurs opposite to item 10 and substituting the following-
**60":
(iv) by deleting "45" where it occurs opposite to item 11 and substituting the following-
"50":
(v) by deleting “424” where it occurs opposite to item 12 and substituting the following-
**50**:
(vi) by deleting "424" where it occurs opposite to item 13 and substituting the following-
"45"; and
(vii) by deleting "35" where it occurs opposite to item 14 and substituting the following-
"40":
(b) by inserting after item 24 a new item as follows-
**24A. Loss of hearing, one car ................................
and
(c) by adding after paragraph (2) at the end of the Schedule
a new paragraph as follows-
"(3) Loss of remaining arm, leg or eye if one has already been lost, shall be the difference between the compensation for the total incapacity, and compensation already paid or that which would have been paid for the previous loss of limb or eye.".
Amendment of the First Schedule,
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