BILL NO. 89

(as introduced)

2nd Session, 63rd General Assembly
Nova Scotia
68 Elizabeth II, 2019

 

Private Member's Bill

 

Workers' Compensation Act
(amended)

 

Tammy Martin
Cape Breton Centre

First Reading: March 1, 2019

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

Explanatory Note

This Bill amends the Workers' Compensation Act to expand the list of diseases presumed to be occupational diseases for firefighters and it shortens the minimum periods of service for the presumption to apply.

An Act to Amend Chapter 10
of the Acts of 1994-95,
the Workers' Compensation Act

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 (1) Subsection 35A(2) of Chapter 10 of the Acts of 1994-95, the Workers' Compensation Act, as enacted by Chapter 5 of the Acts of 2003, is amended by adding "listed in subsection (3A) or" immediately after "is" the second time it appears in the second line.

(2) Subsection 35A(3) of Chapter 10, as enacted by Chapter 5 of the Acts of 2003, is amended by adding "listed in subsection (3A) or" immediately after "period" in the third line.

(3) Section 35A of Chapter 10, as enacted by Chapter 5 of the Acts of 2003, is further amended by adding immediately after subsection (3) the following subsection:

(3A) The diseases and corresponding minimum periods of employment or volunteer work set out in the following table apply for the purposes of subsections (2) and (3):

Disease	Minimum Period of Employment or Volunteer Work
Primary-site brain cancer	10 years
Primary-site bladder cancer	10 years
Primary-site kidney cancer	10 years
Primary non-Hodgkin's lymphoma	10 years
Primary leukemia	5 years
Primary-site colon cancer	10 years
Ureter cancer	10 years
Penile cancer	10 years
Testicular cancer	10 years
Esophageal cancer	10 years
Breast cancer	10 years
Prostate cancer	10 years
Skin cancer	10 years
Digestive-tract cancer	10 years
Multiple myeloma	10 years
Pancreatic cancer	10 years
Ovarian cancer	10 years
Cervical cancer	10 years

(4) Subsection 35A(5) of Chapter 10, as enacted by Chapter 5 of the Acts of 2003, is amended by adding "consistent with subsection (3A)" immediately after "regulations" in the first line.

 

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