NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
REGULATION 109/11

Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation
Regulations (Amendment)
under the
Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Act
(O.C. 2011-374)

(Filed December 14, 2011)

Under the authority of section 123 of the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Act, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council makes the following regulations.

Dated at St. John's, December 14, 2011.

Robert Thompson
Clerk of the Executive Council

REGULATIONS

Analysis

        1.   S.28.1 R&S
Deferred payment
arrangement

        2.   Commencement

CNLR 1025/96
as amended

        1. Section 28.1 of the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Regulations is repealed and the following substituted:

Deferred payment arrangement

   28.1 (1) Notwithstanding section 28, an employer who

             (a)  meets the conditions set by the commission;

             (b)  enters into an arrangement to pay his or her assessment for the current year in equal instalments between April 1 and December 31; and

             (c)  makes the payments in the manner and at the time required by the arrangement referred to in paragraph (b)

is not liable to the penalty required by that section.

             (2)  Where, during the year, the assessment due and payable by an employer for the current year changes, the amount payable under the arrangement entered into by the employer with the commission under subsection (1) shall be adjusted as required and the employer shall pay the balance of the assessment for the year, as adjusted, in equal instalments beginning on the next scheduled payment date immediately following the assessment adjustment and ending on the final scheduled payment date.

             (3)  Where an employer, who has entered into an arrangement with the commission under subsection (1), defaults in making a payment, in the amount or manner or at the time required under his or her arrangement with the commission, section 28 applies to the full outstanding balance.

Commencement

        2. These regulations come into force on January 1, 2012.

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