Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005
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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. | ||
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(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 . |