Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Amendment Act 106 of 1983

Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Amendment Act, 1983 (No. 106 of 1983)

Act

• to provide for the further increase of certain benefits and special awards payable under the provisions of the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act, 1973.

(English text signed by the State President.)
(Assented to 8 September 1983.)

BE IT ENACTED by the State President and the House of Assembly of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:-

Increase of certain benefits and special awards.

1. (1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2), a benefit as defined in section 1, and. a special award referred to in section 101, of the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act, 1973 (Act No. 78 of 1973) (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), which are payable in terms of the principal Act, and which were increased by the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Amendment Act, 1974 (Act No. 67 of 1974), the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Amendment Act, 1975 (Act No. 45 of 1975), the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Amendment Act, 1977 (Act No. 117of 1977), the Occupational Diseases in Mines and .Works Amendment Act, 1979 (Act No. 83 of 1979), the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Amendment Act, 1980 (Act No. 83 of 1980), and the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Amendment Act, 1981 (Act No. 85 of 1981), shall be further increased with effect from 1 October 1983-

(a) in the case of any such benefit paid in terms of the principal Act in the form of a monthly pension to a widow, a dependent child or a person certified to be suffering from a compensatable disease ·which has impaired his cardio-respiratory functions by not more than fifty per cent, whether it became or becomes payable before, on or after 1 October 1983, by 16 per cent;

(b) in the case of all other benefits paid in terms of the principal Act in the form of a monthly pension, whether it became or becomes payable before, on or after 1 October 1983, by 12 per cent; and

(c) in the case of a special award referred to in section 101 of the principal Act, by an amount which the commissioner, as defined in section 1 of the principal Act, may in his discretion determine, but not exceeding 16 per cent of any such special award payable immediately prior to 1 October 1983: 

Provided that in the calculation of any such pension or special award, a fraction of a rand shall be calculated to the next complete rand.

(2) The provisions of subsection (1) shall not apply with reference to any one-sum benefit, as defined in section 1 of the principal Act, to which a person became or becomes entitled before, on or after 1 October 1983.

Short title.

2. This Act shall be called the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Amendment Act, 1983.

Commencement

12 September 1983