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Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Amendment Act, 1981 (No. 85 of 1981)
Act
- to amend the provisions of the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act, 1973, so as to provide for the further Increase of benefits and special awards; and
- to provide for matters lncldental thereto.
(Afrikaans text signed by the State President.)
(Assented to 1 October 1981.)
BE IT ENACTED by the State President and the House of Assembly of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:-
Increase of 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 or115, 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. 117 of 1977), the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Amendment Act, 1979 (Act No. 83 of 1979), and the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Amendment Act, 1980 (Act No. 83 of 1980), shall be further increased-
(a) in the case of any such benefit, by 12 per cent;
(b) in the case of a special award referred to in section 101 of the principal Act, by an amount which the commissioner may in his discretion determine, but not exceeding 12 per cent of any such special award payable immediately prior to 1 April 1981; and
(c) iri the case of a special award referred to in section 115 of the principal Act, by an amount which the authority referred to in that section may in its discretion determine in accordance with the availability of moneys in the Fund referred to in that section not required for the payment of benefits under the principal Act or this Act:
Provided that any such benefit or special award so increased shall be calculated to the next complete rand.
(2) The provisions of this section shall not apply with reference to any one-sum benefit, as defined in section 1 of the principal Act, to which a person became entitled before 1 April 1981.
Short title.
2. This Act shall be called the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Amendment Act, 1981, and shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 April 1981.
Commencement
1 April 1981
