PART VIII OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES — St. Lawrence
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(1) Where
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a work er suffers from a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or from silicosis or carcinoma and is as a result disabled from earning full earnings at the work at which the worker was employed, or the worker's death is caused by that disease and the worker was employed, whether before or after January 1, 1951, in fluorspar extraction, or both, at St. Lawrence; or the date referred to in subsection (5); or a worker or the dependent of a deceased worker or another person to claim compensation for a period before the date referred to in subsection (5); or before January 1, 1984 was employed in fluorspar extraction at St. Lawrence; or
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a wor ker or a deceased worker is listed in the Appendix to chapter XVIII of the Report of the Royal Commission Respecting Radiation, Compensation and Safety at the Fluorspar Mines, St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, 1969, as being entitled to compensation under the commission's recommendations, whether by majority decision or decision of a single member, the disease or disability suffered by the worker or the worker's death shall be considered to be due to the nature of the employment in those mines unless it is traceable to other employment. the date of disability or death, whichever is later, as if the disease were an injury arising out of and in the course of the worker's employment in those mines and the disablement or death were the happening of the injury. th e personal representative, surviving spouse, cohabiting partner or next of kin of a deceased dependent of a worker, where that surviving spouse, cohabiting partner or next of kin is not a dependent of that worker to claim compensation for a period before or after the date referred to in subsection (5). is referred to in paragraph (1)(b).
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A worker referred to in subsection (1) or where the worker is deceased, the dependents of the deceased worker are entitled to compensation from
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The intent of this section is that the recommendations respecting compensation appearing in the report referred to in subsection (1) including minority recommendations, shall be fully implemented, and this section shall be interpreted in the light of this intent, and, to dispel doubt, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may make regulations for the purpose of giving effect to that intent.
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Nothing in this section shall entitle
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This section applies only in relation to a worker who
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