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Ord. No. 51/80

PNEUMOCONIOSIS (COMPENSATION)

Section

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PART V

PNEUMOCONIOSIS COMPENSATION FUND BOARD

25.

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Establishment of Pneumoconiosis Compansation Fund Board Functions and powers of the Board

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PART VI

FINANCIAL PROVISIONS

27.

Establishment of Pneumoconiosis Compensation Fund

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28.

Payments by the Board from the Fund

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29.

Estimates and financial year

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30.

Bank account

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31.

Investment of funds

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32.

Accounts

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33.

Auditors

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34.

Statements and reports to be laid on table of Legislative Council

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PART VII

LEVY

35.

Imposition of levy

36.

Rate of levy

37.

Payment of levy and surcharge

38.

Recovery of levy

39.

Evasion of payment of levy

PART VIII

MISCELLANEOUS

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40.

Variation of compensation limits and daily rates for medical

expenses

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41.

Compensation not to be assigned, charged or attached

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42.

Supply of particulars

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43.

Evidence by certificate etc.

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44.

Authentication, and production in evidence of documents

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45.

False statements

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46.

Jurisdiction of Court

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Regulations

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48.

Consequential amendments

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49.

Repeal

First Schedule

Second Schedule

Third Schedule ...

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PNEUMOCONIOSIS (COMPENSATION)

Ord. No. 51/80

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HONG KONG

No. 51 OF 1980

I assent.

L.S.

JACK CATER,

Acting Governor.

24 July 1980.

An Ordinance to establish a scheme for compensating persons or their dependants in respect of incapacity or death resulting from pneumo- coniosis and for purposes connected therewith.

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Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.

PART I

PRELIMINARY

1. (1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Pneumoconiosis (Com- Short title and pensation) Ordinance 1980.

(2) This Ordinance shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazette and the notices under this section may appoint different dates for different provisions of this Ordin-

ance.

2.

(1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires― "Board" means the Pneumoconiosis Compensation Fund Board established

under section 25;

"Commissioner" means the Commissioner for Labour;

"compensation" means compensation as provided by this Ordinance; "construction works" has the meaning assigned to it in section 2(2) of the

Industrial Training (Construction Industry) Ordinance; "contractor" has the meaning assigned to it in section 2(1) of the Industrial

Training (Construction Industry) Ordinance;

"Court" means the District Court;

"date of incapacity" means-

(a) in the case of temporary incapacity, the date specified in a medical certificate issued under section 10(2) as the date on which the temporary incapacity commenced;

(b) in the case of permanent incapacity, the date specified in a certificate issued under section 24(6) or (8) as the date on which the permanent incapacity commenced;

"dependants" means those members of the family of a person who were wholly or in part dependent upon his earnings at the time of his death, or would but for the incapacity have been so dependent, and, where the person, being the parent or grandparent of an illegitimate child, leaves such child so dependent upon his earnings, or being an

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Interpretation.

(Cap. 317.)