Singapore legislation
Regulation 44
Regulation 44
Determination of degree of disablement
Subregulation 1
For the purpose of any award in respect of disability in this Division, the degree of disablement is to be assessed and certified according to this regulation.
Subregulation 2
The degree of the disablement attributable to service of a special police officer is to be assessed by comparing the condition of the special police officer with the condition of a normal healthy person of the same age.
Subregulation 3
The assessment under paragraph (2) must not take into account the earning capacity of the special police officer in his or her disabled condition in his or her own or any other specific trade or occupation, nor the effect of any individual factor or extraneous circumstance; but where the disablement is due to more than one injury, a composite assessment of the degree of disablement is to be made by reference to the combined effect of all such injuries.
Subregulation 4
The assessment under paragraph (2) must be certified by way of a percentage, total disablement being represented by 100% (which is the maximum assessment) and a lesser degree or partial disablement being represented by a percentage that bears to 100% the same proportion as the lesser degree of disablement bears to total disablement.
Subregulation 5
Where a disablement of a special police officer is due to an injury —
that is specified in the Fourth Schedule to the Work Injury Compensation Act 2019, or is a disablement so specified; and
that has reached a settled condition,the degree of the disablement must (in the absence of any special features) be certified at the percentage equivalent to the percentage of loss of earning capacity specified in that Schedule as appropriate to that injury or to that disablement.