Section 36: Sickness benefits

36. Sickness benefits.___ (1) An insured person who is certified by a medical practitioner to be incapable of attending to his work on account of sickness shall be entitled to receive sickness benefit at the rate specified in the Schedule, if during the six calendar months immediat ely preceding the date on which his incapacity for work was so certified, contributions in respect of him were paid or payable for not less than ninety days. (2) Sickness benefit shall be paid throughout the period of sickness of an insured person but for not more than ninety-one days in any continuous period of three hundred and sixty-five days: Provided that no sickness benefit shall be paid for the first three days of sickness, unless it is sickness following, within fifteen days, another sickness for which sickness benefit was paid.

Effective date: 1962-01-01

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