Singapore legislation

Clause 15

Assessment of permanent incapacity or current incapacity

(1)

For the purposes of determining the permanent incapacity or current incapacity of an employee resulting from the employee’s work injury, an accepted medical report is evidence of the employee’s —

(a)

permanent total incapacity or permanent partial incapacity, assessed by the health professional who made the report at any time after the date of the accident that caused the work injury; or

(b)

current total incapacity or current partial incapacity, at the time of the assessment by the health professional who made the report, assessed at the earliest opportunity but not earlier than 6 months after the date of the accident that caused the work injury.

(2)

Subsection (1)(b) does not apply to any incapacity resulting from the diseases mentioned in section 10(1).

Read in full context — Work Injury Compensation Bill →