BILL NO. 94

(as introduced)

3rd Session, 63rd General Assembly
Nova Scotia
70 Elizabeth II, 2021

 

Private Member's Bill

 

Workers' Compensation Act
(amended)

 

Kendra Coombes
Cape Breton Centre

First Reading: April 7, 2021

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

Explanatory Note

This Bill expands the definition of "front-line or emergency-response worker" in the provisions respecting presumptive benefits for workers diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder in the Workers' Compensation Act to include workers carrying out child-protection services.

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 Subsection 12A(1) of Chapter 10 of the Acts of 1994-95, the Workers' Compensation Act, as enacted by Chapter 16 of the Acts of 2017, is amended by adding ", worker carrying out child-protection services" immediately after "officer" in the fourth line of clause (a).

 

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