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208 of 1993
The Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Amendment Act 208 of 1993 intends:
- to amend the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act, 1973, so as
- to do away with all provisions which differentiate between persons on the ground of their sex or population group;
- to define or further define certain expressions;
- to empower the director to authorize owners of mines and works to issue certificates of fitness on his behalf and subject to his directions;
- to do away with the office of medical adviser;
- to regulate differently the expression of a risk;
- to make the possession of a certificate of fitness by all persons performing risk work in controlled mines and works compulsory;
- to regulate differently the issuing of certificates of fitness;
- to repeal provisions which seek to preclude the jurisdiction of the courts;
- to further regulate the certification of compensatable diseases;
- to increase the number of members of the advisory committee;
- to change the basis on which interest on amounts indebted to the commissioner is levied;
- to provide for the actuarial valuation of the fund;
- to change the basis on which benefits are calculated;
- to do away with assistance in connection with training;
- to empower the Minister to amend the Act so as to increase benefits; and
- to extend the Minister's powers to make regulations; and
- to provide for matters connected therewith.
Amends
Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Amendment Act 137 of 1991
Commencement
1 September 1995 (Gazette 16612 of 18 Aug 1995)