Effective date: June 1, 2014
Application: All decisions made on claims on and after the effective date, where a worker is found dead.
Policy subject: Decision making - Principles
Purpose:
To establish guidelines for applying presumptive clauses in fatalities.
The Workers’ Compensation Act, 2013
Sections 2(1)(l), 2(1)(ii), 20, 27, 29, 94, 115
(1) POL and PRO 16/2010, Fatalities, Presumption (effective May 1, 2010 to May 31, 2014).
(2) POL 10/2002, Fatalities – Presumption (effective January 1, 2003 to April 30, 2010).
(3) Bill 72, The Workers’ Compensation Amendment Act, 2002.
(3) POL and PRO 09/1999, Fatalities – Presumption (effective May 17, 1999 to December 31, 2002).
(4) POL 34/83, Fatalities Presumption Clauses (effective July 7, 1983 to May 16, 1999).