PART XII GENERAL — Commission regulations

prescribing the minimum amount of an expenditure of the commission under section 11 for which Lieutenant-Governor in Council approval is required;

excluding workers and employers from the application of this Act;

prescribing rules for the purpose of subsection 47(2);

providing that methods of calculating and levying assessments additional to or different from the methods otherwise provided under this Act may be used for levying assessments for the purpose of this Act on commercial buyers and other commercial recipients of fish, and on a person engaged within the province in transmitting payments to fishers for fish whether landed within the jurisdiction of the province or elsewhere;

creating obligations, different from the provisions of this Act, upon commercial buyers and commercial recipients of fish, and masters of fishing vessels, to report to the commission injuries and occupational diseases sustained by fishers, and to provide transportation for initial medical treatment;

excluding a portion of the fishing industry or a category of workers or employers in that industry to whom a provision of this Act would otherwise apply from the application of that provision, and to substitute provisions;

providing for the priority in relation to assessment on persons covered by section 47;

prescribing educational institutions for the purposes of subsection 49(1);

prescribing the amount of compensation that the commission may pay to a worker's surviving dependent spouse or cohabiting partner and children where the death of the worker results from an injury;

prescribing the maximum amount of expenses that the commission may pay for the burial of a worker whose death resulted from an injury;

prescribing the method of calculating the compensation under section 75 and the manner in which the compensation shall be paid;

respecting the payment of bereavement counselling for a worker's surviving dependent spouse or cohabiting partner and children;

prescribing the maximum compensable assessable earnings;

prescribing other things that an employer is required to do to co-operate in the early and safe return to work of a worker injured during employment;

prescribing other things that a worker is required to do to co-operate in the early and safe return to work;

prescribing occupational diseases and associated descriptions of processes;

respecting the admission of a volunteer members of a fire department or brigade;

prescribing the minimum amount of an assessment;

prescribing information that an employer is required to provide to the commission for the purposes of paragraph 123(1)(b);

prescribing the time period in which an employer is required to provide statements and records to the commission for the purposes of subsection 123(5);

prescribing the information a principal is required to provide to the commission and the form, manner and time period in which the information is to be provided;

respecting the conversion and integration of permanent disability benefits paid to a worker in respect of an injury which occurred before January 1, 1984 ;

defining a word or expression used but not defined in this Act; and

generally to give effect to the purpose of this Act.

Regulations made under this section may be made with retroactive effect.