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Second Session, 50th General Assembly

1 Charles III, 2022

BILL 12

AN ACT TO AMEND THE WORKPLACE HEALTH, SAFETY AND COMPENSATION ACT

Received and Read the First Time................................................................

Second Reading............................................................................................

Committee.....................................................................................................

Third Reading...............................................................................................

Royal Assent.................................................................................................

HONOURABLE BERNARD DAVIS

Minister Responsible for Workplace NL

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

 

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Act to expand presumptive cancer coverage for firefighters and add presumptive cardiac coverage for firefighters.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE WORKPLACE HEALTH, SAFETY AND COMPENSATION ACT

Analysis

        1.   S.92.1 Amdt.
Definitions

        2.   S.92.4 Amdt.
Application

        3.   Commencement

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cW-11
as amended

        1. (1) Paragraph 92.1(e) of the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Act is amended by deleting the word "or" at the end of subparagraph (x), deleting the semi-colon and the word "and" at the end of subparagraph (xi) and substituting a comma and adding immediately after that subparagraph the following:

                   (xii)  a primary site penile cancer,

                  (xiii)  a primary site pancreatic cancer,

                 (xiv)  a primary site thyroid cancer,

                  (xv)  multiple myeloma,

                 (xvi)  a primary site prostate cancer,

                (xvii)  a primary site cervical cancer,

               (xviii)  a primary site ovarian cancer,

                 (xix)  a primary site skin cancer, or

             (2)  Paragraph 92.1(e) of the Act is amended by adding immediately after subparagraph (xix) the following:

                  (xx)  an injury to the heart that manifests within 24 hours after attendance at an emergency response; and

 

        2. Section 92.4 of the Act is repealed and the following substituted:

Application

   92.4 (1) The presumption in section 92.2 applies to

             (a)  a firefighter who is diagnosed with a listed disease referred to in subparagraphs 92.1(e)(i) to (xi) on or after December 14, 2015;

             (b)  a volunteer firefighter who is diagnosed with a listed disease referred to in subparagraphs 92.1(e)(i) to (xi) on or after January 1, 2017;

             (c)  a firefighter or volunteer firefighter who is diagnosed with a listed disease referred to in subparagraphs 92.1(e)(xii) to (xix) on or after December 18, 2019; and

             (d)  a firefighter or volunteer firefighter who is diagnosed with a listed disease referred to in subparagraph 92.1(e)(xx) on or after November 30, 2022.

Commencement

        3. (1) Subsection 1(1) is considered to have come into force on December 18, 2019.

             (2)  Subsection 1(2) comes into force on November 30, 2022.

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