Singapore legislation
Section 10
Section 10
Employer’s liability to compensate for diseases
(1)
Subject to subsections (2), (3), (4) and (5) and section 11, where incapacity or death of an employee results from a disease contracted in the circumstances mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c), compensation is payable as if the disease were a work injury and this Act applies accordingly:
the employee, while employed in any occupation specified in the second column of the Second Schedule, contracts an occupational disease specified for that occupation;
the employee, after ceasing to be employed in an occupation specified in the second column of the Second Schedule, contracts an occupational disease specified for that occupation within the limitation period for that disease;
the employee contracts, on or after 1 June 2012, a disease that —
is not specified in the first column of the Second Schedule; and
is directly attributable to an exposure to a chemical or biological agent and the exposure arises out of and in the course of the employee’s employment.
(2)
When an employee —
enters into a contract of service with any employer to work in any occupation specified in the second column of the Second Schedule; or (b)is, with the employee’s consent, transferred by the employer to such an occupation, the employee must, if requested to do so by the employer, submit to examination by a health professional paid for by the employer.
(3)
No compensation is payable by an employer under this section in respect of the incapacity or death of an employee resulting from —
an occupational disease specified in the first column of the Second Schedule for an occupation if —
the employee is, on or after 1 June 2012, employed in that occupation by the employer;
the employee contracts the occupational disease on or after 1 June 2012; and
the employee’s incapacity commences or death happens, after the end of the limitation period for that occupational disease; or
a disease mentioned in subsection (1)(c), if the employee’s incapacity commences or death happens more than one year after the employee ceases to be exposed to the chemical or biological agent mentioned in subsection (1)(c).
(4)
Subsection (3) does not apply to the death of an employee where the death is preceded, whether immediately or not, by any period of incapacity in respect of which compensation is payable under subsection (1).
(5)
In this section, the limitation period for an occupational disease specified for an occupation is the period specified in the third column of the Second Schedule for that disease, starting on the day after the employee who contracts that occupational disease had ceased to be employed in that occupation.