Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981
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Adjustments for successive accidents. [1966 OI, s. 15]. |
48.—(1) Where a person suffers two or more successive accidents against which he is insured by occupational injuries insurance— | |
(a) the person shall not for the same period be entitled (apart from any increase of benefit such as is mentioned in subsection (2)) to receive benefit, either by way of injury benefit and any disablement pension or pensions or by way of two or more disablement pensions, at an aggregate rate exceeding the amount equivalent to the appropriate maximum rate of disablement pension payable under section 43 (8), | ||
(b) the provision of this Chapter excluding the right to injury benefit for the first 3 days of incapacity resulting from the relevant accident unless there are 12 such days during the injury benefit period shall, in relation to two or more accidents happening at intervals not greater than 13 weeks as a result of each of which the person is incapable of work on some day during the injury benefit period, apply so as to permit of there being taken into account, for the purpose of making up the said 12 days in the case of each of those accidents, any days which may be so taken into account in the case of any other of them, | ||
(c) regulations may provide for adjusting— | ||
(i) injury benefit or disablement benefit, or the conditions for the receipt thereof, in any case where the person has received or may be entitled to, a disablement gratuity, | ||
(ii) any increase of benefit such as is mentioned in subsection (2), or the conditions for the receipt thereof. | ||
(2) The increases of benefit referred to in subsection (1) are increases in the rate of injury benefit or of disablement pension under sections 44 , 45 and 46 . |