Section 45: Medical care in case of employment injury

45. Medical care in case of employment injury.___(1) When medical care is required as a result of an employment injury,__ (a) no conditions as regards payment of contribution shall apply; (b) it shall be afforded for so long as required and shall include dental care in addition to the services referred to in section 46; (c) the provisions of section 46 in so far as they relate to sharing of cost shall not apply. (2) A person in receipt of a disablement pension (in case the loss of his earning capacity is at least fifty percent. of the average rate of his earning in the usual occupation) or injury benefit and his dependants, and where the disablement pension is being received by the dependants of the insured person such dependants, shall be entitled to medical care for so long as the disablement pension or injury benefit, as the case may be, continues, and in the case of a disablement pension being received by the insured person for six months after the termination of the pension.

Effective date: 1962-01-01

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