Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1993

Adjustments for successive accidents.

[1981, s. 48(1)]

58.—(1) Where a person suffers 2 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 2 or more disablement pensions, at an aggregate rate exceeding the amount equivalent to the appropriate maximum rate of disablement pension payable under section 54(8),

(b) 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.

[1981, s. 48(2)]

(2) The increases of benefit referred to in subsection (1) are increases in the rate of injury benefit or of disablement pension under sections 55, 56 and 57.