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NL · WorkplaceNL Act (injury compensation) · Article 95 · clause 95 · SNL2022 c W-11.1

PART VI HEALTH CARE — Where healthcare needed

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(1) The commission shall provide a worker who is entitled to compensation under this Act or who would have been entitled had the worker been disabled longer than the day of the injury with the health care that in the opinion of the commission may be necessary as a result of the injury.

95(2)

The commission may provide a daily allowance to a worker for the worker's subsistence when, under its direction, the worker is undergoing treatment at a place other than the place where the worker ordinarily lives.

95(3)

A worker referred to in subsection (1) is entitled to the health care that the commission may decide is necessary or advisable, including

95(a)

a prosthesis and apparatus that may be necessary as a result of an injury;

95(b)

the repair and replacement of a prosthesis and apparatus;

95(c)

the repair and replacement of clothing which is damaged or worn by the use of a prosthesis or apparatus;

95(d)

the replacement of an article of clothing destroyed by an injury or the cause of the injury and the repair or replacement, as the commission may determine, of that article of clothing;

95(e)

dental appliances and apparatus that may be necessary as a result of an injury;

95(f)

repair and replacement of dental appliances and apparatus;

95(g)

hearing and vision aids that may be necessary as a result of an incident causing personal injury or, where there is no personal injury, as a result of a work incident that is proven to the satisfaction of the commission; and

95(h)

the repair or replacement of hearing and vision aids.

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