Singapore legislation
Clause 11
Clause 11
Date of accident and apportionment of liability for compensation for disease
(1)
For the purposes of calculating the employee’s AME for the computation of compensation payable by an employer under section 10(1)(a), (b) or (c), the date of the accident is taken to be the earliest of the following dates:
the last day of the employee’s employment with the employer mentioned in section 10(1)(a), (b) or (c), as the case may be;
the date of commencement of the incapacity of the employee; (c)the date of the employee’s death.
(2)
For all other purposes of this Act in relation to compensation payable under section 10(1)(a), (b) or (c), the date of the accident is taken to be —
the earlier of —
the date of commencement of the incapacity of the employee; or (ii)the date on which a health professional certifies that, in the health professional’s opinion, the employee is suffering from the disease mentioned in section 10(1); or (b)if there has been no previous period of incapacity — the date of the employee’s death.
(3)
If an employee contracts a disease mentioned in section 10(1) by a gradual process, so that 2 or more employers are severally liable to pay compensation under that section in respect of the employee’s incapacity or death —
the aggregate amount of the compensation payable by those employers must not exceed the amount that would have been payable if those employers were a single employer; and (b)if all of the employers do not come to an agreement on the apportionment of liability — each employer is liable for such proportion of the compensation payable as the Commissioner may direct.