Regulation 2

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —“Board” means the Compensation Board appointed by the Minister for Finance under regulation 3;“compensation authority” means the Compensation Officer or the Board, as the case may require;“gainfully occupied adult” means a person not below the age of 12 years who is engaged on the date of receiving any injury in any trade, profession, office, employment or vocation and wholly or substantially dependent thereon for a livelihood or, who, though temporarily unemployed on the date of receiving any injury, is normally so engaged or dependent;“injury” means any injury, fatal or otherwise, sustained by any person within Singapore by any means whatsoever which, in the opinion of the compensation authority, was caused in a security area, as a direct result of and was attributable to the declaration of such an area as a security area by proclamation under section 48 of the Act;“wages” includes any privilege or benefit which is capable of being estimated in money but does not include —