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Employees' Compensation

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Payment of costs from and into general revenue

36L. (1) Where, in respect of an accident occurring on or after the date on which this section comes into operation, an employer is liable to pay for the cost of

(a) supplying and fitting any prosthesis or surgical appliance to an injured employee under section 36B; and

(b) the normal repair and renewal of such prosthesis or surgical appliance under section 36I,

then, subject to the rights of the Director in respect of the recovery of any amount from the employer under this Part, the cost-

(i) of the supplying and fitting; and

(ii) whenever incurred, of the normal repair and renewal,

of such prosthesis or surgical appliance shall be payable out of the general revenue of Hong Kong.

(2) All amounts-

(a) paid to the Director under section 36E(1); and

(b) recovered by him under sections 36F(2) and 36G,

shall be paid by him into the general revenue of Hong Kong.

Prostheses and Surgical Appliances Board

(Added, 44 of 1980, s. 12)

36M. (1) The Director shall appoint a board to be known as the Prostheses and Surgical Appliances Board which shall consist of

(a) 2 medical practitioners or registered dentists; and

(b) the Senior Occupational Health Officer or any Occupational Health Officer. (Amended, L.N. 248/82)

(2) The functions of the Board shall be-

(a) to determine whether a prosthesis or surgical appliance required by an injured employee is necessary for him having regard to the nature and extent of his injury and, if so, to determine the cost of supplying and fitting the same;

(b) in any case where a prosthesis or surgical appliance has already been fitted to an injured employee, to determine whether the prosthesis or surgical appliance is necessary for him having regard to the nature and extent of his injury and, if so, to determine whether the cost of the same is reasonable; and

(c) in any case to which section 36I applies, to assess the total amount of the probable cost of the normal repair and renewal of any prosthesis or surgical appliance during a period of 10 years after the date of the original fitting of the same.

(3) The Board shall, when assessing the total amount of the probable cost of the normal repair and renewal of a prosthesis or surgical appliance under subsection (2)(c), have regard to