Employment injury benefit

(1) Regulations may provide that in addition to the kinds of benefit specified in section 11, there shall be an employment injury benefit which shall consist of– (a) injury benefit, that is to say, in addition to such free medical care and attention as may be prescribed, periodical payments to an insured person who suffers personal injury by an accident arising out of and in the course of insurable employment or develops any prescribed disease being a disease due to the nature of such employment resulting in incapacity for work; 19 (b) disablement benefit, that is to say, in addition to such free medical care and attention as may be prescribed, periodical payments or a lump sum grant to an insured person who as a result of such injury or disease as referred to in paragraph (a) sustains loss of faculty; or (c) death benefit, that is to say, periodical payments in respect of an insured person who dies as a result of such injury or disease as referred to in paragraph (a); and (d) funeral grant, that is to say, a payment in respect of an insured person who dies as a result of such injury or disease as referred to in paragraph (a). (2) Subject to sections 59 and 60, employment injury benefits described in this section shall not be payable in respect of an accident which happens outside Belize or a prescribed disease or injury which is due to the nature of an employment in which the insured person has been engaged only outside Belize. (3) From and after the day when regulations under this section come into operation, the Workmen’s Compensation Act, shall not apply to any insured person or his dependents where the insured person suffers any personal injury or develops any disease as would entitle him or his dependents to any benefit under those regulations. CAP. 303. 20