Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005

Adjustments for successive accidents.

[1993 s58(1); 2005 (SW&P) s5]

79.—(1) Where a person suffers 2 or more successive accidents against which he or she is insured by occupational injuries insurance, regulations may provide for adjusting—

(a) injury benefit or disablement benefit, or the conditions for the receipt of injury benefit or disablement benefit, in any case where the person has received, or may be entitled to, a disablement gratuity,

(b) any increase of benefit referred to in subsection (2), or the conditions for the receipt of any such increase.

[1993 s58(2); 2005 (SW&P) s5(1)]

(2) An increase of benefit referred to in subsection (1) is an increase in the rate of injury benefit or of disablement pension under sections 76 , 77 and 78 .