Social Welfare (Occupational Injuries) Act, 1966

Injury benefit.

8.—(1) Subject to the provisions of the Acts, an insured person who suffers personal injury caused on or after the appointed day by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment, being insurable (occupational injuries) employment, shall be entitled to injury benefit in respect of any day on which, as the result of the injury, he is incapable of work during the injury benefit period:

Provided that, subject to paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 15 of this Act, an insured person shall not be entitled to injury benefit in respect of the first three such days unless, as the result of the injury, he is incapable of work during the said period on not less than twelve days.

(2) In determining whether the insured person is incapable of work on the day of the accident, any part of that day before the happening of the accident shall be disregarded.

(3) Injury benefit shall be an allowance payable at a weekly rate of—

(a) in case the beneficiary is—

(I) under the age of eighteen years, or

(II) being over the age of eighteen years, a married woman other than a married woman living apart from and unable to obtain any financial assistance from her husband,

and is not entitled to an increase of benefit in respect of a child qualified for the purposes of this Act or children so qualified or for an adult dependant—seventy-seven shillings and sixpence, and

(b) in any other case—one hundred and fifteen shillings.

(4) The amount payable by way of injury benefit for any day of incapacity shall be one-sixth of the appropriate weekly rate.

(5) A person under the age of sixteen years shall not be entitled to injury benefit except in so far as may be provided by regulations.