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NL · WorkplaceNL Act (injury compensation) · Article 98 · clause 98 · SNL2022 c W-11.1

PART VI HEALTH CARE — First medical treatment

98(b)

provide immediate transportation to a hospital should that be necessary or to a place where proper health care can be given; and

98

(1) Where a worker has been so seriously injured that the worker cannot continue at the worker's regular work, the employer shall, at the employer's own expense, as soon as reasonably possible after the injury,

98(a)

obtain necessary health care or convey the worker to a place where the worker may receive health care;

98(c)

provide or arrange for the provision of health care that may be necessary to the worker upon the journey.

98(2)

Where an employer fails to comply with subsection (1), a person may obtain the necessary health care or convey the worker to a hospital or place referred to in that subsection and the employer shall pay the reasonable expenses for obtaining the health care or for the conveyance.

98(3)

Where the employer fails to pay the expenses referred to in subsection (2), the commission may pay the expenses and the employer is liable to pay the commission double the amount paid and the payment of the amount may be enforced in the same manner as an assessment.

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