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Workmen's Compensation

[1974 Ed.

(e) the ratio of expenses to benefits;

(s) the amounts paid in commissions to agents; and

(g) the income and expenditure in relation to insurance of

employers under this Part,

and shall transmit any such statistics and information to the Com- missioner 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 informa- tion relating to any other business carried on.

(3) Any authorized insurer who contravenes any of the pro- visions 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 $5,000.

(Added, 55 of 1969, s. 25)

PART V

MISCELLANEOUS

Compensation

not to be assigned,

charged or attached.

Deduction of insurance premiums from carnings to be an offence.

Contract of service not to be terminated

during

incapacity.

(Added, 19 of 1964, s. 6)

46. Compensation payable under the provisions of this Ordin- ance shall not be capable of being assigned, charged or attached, and shall not pass to any other person by operation of law nor shall any claim be set off against such compensation.

47. An employer who, for the purpose of defraying or partly defraying the cost of insurance in respect of his liability to pay compensation under the provisions of this Ordinance, makes any deduction from the earnings of a workman in his employ, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $1,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.

48. (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 Ordinance 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 pro- visions 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 $2,000.

(Added, 55 of 1969, s. 26)