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Workers’ Compensation General Regulations

made under Sections 12A and 184 of the

Workers’ Compensation Act

S.N.S. 1994-95, c. 10

O.I.C. 96-59 (effective February 1, 1996), N.S. Reg. 22/1996

amended to O.I.C. 2025-268 (effective September 23 , 2025), N.S. Reg. 189/2025

including O.I.C. 2025-340 (effective October 26, 2018), N.S. Reg. 254/2025

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Citation

[Definition of “assessable payroll”]

Scope of coverage—inclusion of industries

Scope of coverage—exclusion of industries

Scope of coverage—exclusion of classes of workers

Scope of coverage—exclusion of class of employers

Occupational diseases

Earnings

Minimum and maximum earnings

Annuities

Survivor benefits

Supplementary benefits

Posting of notices

Assessments

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Occupations comprising front-line or emergency-response workers

Prescribed diagnosticians

Date presumption in

Section 12A of Act applies

Application of presumption—period for diagnosis after ceasing employment

Deadline for filing claim for compensation after diagnosis

Definition for clause 10J(2)(

a) of Act

Appendix “A”

Appendix “B”

Citation

1 These regulations may be cited as the Workers’ Compensation General Regulations .

[Definition of “assessable payroll”]

1A

(1) In these regulations “assessable payroll” includes employment earnings reportable

to the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency in Box 14 of T4 slips, labelled as

“Employment Income” or “Gross Earnings”, but does not include

(

a) earnings in excess of the maximum amount for a worker’s gross annual

earnings determined as maximum earnings pursuant to clause 41(

c) of the

Act;

(

b) earnings of classes of workers excluded from the Act;

(

c) employer-funded short and long-term disability benefits;

(

d) employer-funded top-up of workers’ compensation benefits, wage-loss

replacement plans, maternity and parental benefits; or

(

e) an amount included in Box 14 of a T4 slip that is an allowance for

equipment used at the employee’s expense provided for in subclause

8(1)(i)(iii) of the Income Tax Act (Canada).

(2) For greater certainty, nothing in these regulations shall be interpreted as limiting

the discretion of the Board to determine, for the purposes of

Section 9 of the Act,

the amount that shall be deemed to be the earnings of a worker, and to determine

the assessment to be remitted by a person who is deemed to be an employer

pursuant to

Section 9 of the Act.

Scope of coverage—inclusion of industries

2 Subject to Sections 3 to 18, employers and workers engaged in, about or in connection

with the industries listed in Appendix “A” are subject to the operation of the Act.

Scope of coverage—exclusion of industries

3 Despite

Section 2, employers and workers engaged in, about or in connection with the

following industries are excluded from the operation of the Act:

(

a) the business of a florist or seedman, seed growing, gardening and

horticulture; the keeping or breeding of livestock, poultry or bees; fruit

growing; the picking, grading, packing, hauling, handling and storage of

fruit or vegetables;

(

b) barber shops and shoe shine establishments;

(

c) undertaking and funeral directing;

(

d) educational institutions, surgical medical, veterinary work and dental

surgery;

(

e) taxidermy;

(

f) work upon golf courses, tennis grounds, grounds used for open air sports,

games or athletics when performed by workers of the owner or occupier;

(

g) the operation of taxicabs;

(

h) all operations and work carried on by means of a ship, boat or vessel of any

kind or performed by the members of the crew thereof, that are not included

in the industries listed in Appendix “A” of these regulations; and

(

i) fishing, sealing and dredging before the first day of January, 1970.

(1) Subject to subsection (2), marine wrecking, marine salving, the landing,

warehousing and caring for property so salved, all operations in or about a ship

wrecked, or in distress, and all work incidental to any of the foregoing are excluded

from the application of the Act.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the work is

(

a) performed by an employer who is assessed with respect to any industry

which includes such operations;

(

b) carried on by means of a steamship whose general operations at the time are

within the application of the Act; or

(

c) performed for the employer by the members of the crew of the ship wrecked

or in distress and the industry in which the ship is engaged is at the time

within the application of the Act.

(3) In the cases mentioned in subsection (2), the employer is liable for such special or

additional assessment with respect to the operations as the Board may make.

5 Every industry which, if carried on by an employer carrying on no other industry, would

not be an industry to which the Act applies, is excluded from the application of the Act

when it is carried on as a separate business or undertaking by an employer who is also

carrying on an industry to which the Act applies.

(1) Anything not itself carried on or done by the employer as a business or trade,

which but for this

Section would be an industry to which the Act applies, is

excluded from the application of the Act, except when it is carried on or performed

as part of, or as a process in, or as incidental to, an industry to which the Act

applies.

(2) This

Section does not apply to any industry carried on by or for a city, town or

municipality, or a public utility, or to anything incidental thereto.

7 When an industry is carried on by a city, town or municipal corporation, the work in

connection with the industry that is performed by the mayor, warden, councillors,

aldermen, clerk, treasurer or manager, is excluded from the application of the Act.

8 [repealed]

Scope of coverage—exclusion of classes of workers

(1) The following persons are excluded from the Act:

(

a) persons whose employment is of a casual nature when they are employed

otherwise than for the purposes of the employer’s trade or business;

(

b) outworkers;

(

c) persons employed by a city, town or municipal corporation as members of a

police force or the fire department, except volunteer firefighters to whom

Part I of the Act applies; and

(

d) farm labourers or domestic or menial servants or their employers.

(2) In this Section, “outworker” means a person to whom articles or materials are

given out to be made up, cleaned, washed, altered, ornamented, finished, repaired

or adapted for sale in the person’s own home or on other premises not under the

direct or indirect control or management of the person who gave out the articles or

materials.

10 All actors, players, artists and entertainers and all members of a company or troupe of

actors, players or entertainers and the work performed by them in a theatre or

broadcasting station, as well as all work incidental to their engagement or performances

are excluded from the application of the Act.

(1) Any director or officer of an incorporated company who performs no services for

the company except to attend directors’ meetings, and the work so performed, are

excluded from the Act.

(2) Where a director or officer of an incorporated company holds the position of

President, Vice-President, or any other office and receives no remuneration for

services other than such amount as may be allowed to each director of the

company for attending directors’ meetings, such persons and the work performed

by them are excluded from the Act.

12 Persons receiving remuneration for soliciting subscriptions for or selling newspapers and

other periodicals or for writing editorials, news items or articles or for making

collections, but who do not perform any other duties in connection with the newspaper,

magazine or other publication and do not in connection with their duties occupy or use

any office, room or space in the building in which the newspaper, magazine or

publication is printed or in which are editorial, business or other offices, or in which the

type is set up or the machinery is installed, are excluded from the application of the Act.

13 Persons employed by a telephone company to perform services in a house or building

not owned, occupied or controlled by the company and whose time is not wholly

devoted during office hours to the work of the employer, are excluded from the

application of the Act and the services performed by those employees are excluded from

the application of the Act.

14 Travelling sales workers when they are the only workers employed in an industry are

excluded from the application of the Act.

Scope of coverage—exclusion of class of employers

15 Subject to Sections 16 to 18, every business or undertaking is excluded from the

application of the Act until at least three workers are at the same time employed in the

business or undertaking.

16 Where a business or undertaking is being carried on

(

a) partly by the employer and partly by one or more contractors; or

(

b) entirely by two or more contractors of an employer,

the business or undertaking is not excluded from the application of the Act after the time

three or more workers are at the same time employed in the business or undertaking.

17 When counting the number of workers for purposes of

Section 15, “worker” includes

(

a) a person who would be a worker but for the operation of clause 2(ae)(xiii)

of the Act; and

(

b) an officer, director or manager of an employer, where the person is

(

i) actively engaged in the business but not carried on the payroll of the

business at the person’s actual earnings, or

(ii) not actively engaged in the business but carried on the payroll of the

business.

18 For greater certainty, the definition of “worker” in

Section 17

(

a) is made solely for purposes of counting the number of workers for purposes

Section 15;

(

b) does not operate to make a person described in

Section 17 a “worker” for

purposes of the Act; and

(

c) does not entitle any person described in

Section 17 to compensation under

the Act.

Occupational diseases

19 The processes, trades or occupations, and the corresponding occupational diseases listed

in Appendix “B” are listed for the purposes of subsection 12(3) of the Act.

Earnings

(1) A worker’s gross average earnings are the total of

(

a) the worker’s regular salary or wages; and

(

b) after the first 26 weeks of earnings-replacement benefits or for purposes of

benefits other than earnings-replacement benefits and extended earnings-replacement benefits, income from

(

i) overtime that is not regular salary or wages, and

(ii) federal employment insurance benefits other than those payable as

maternity or parental leave benefits.

(2) For the purposes of calculating net average earnings under subsection 39(1) of the

Act, earnings-related expenses shall be deducted from gross average earnings.

Minimum and maximum earnings

21 The gross annual earnings of a member of a volunteer fire department to whom

Part I of

the Act applies shall be

(

a) a minimum of $10 200 dollars, and

(

b) a maximum of the amount determined as maximum earnings pursuant to

clause 41(

c) of the Act.

(1) In this Section, “average industrial wage for Nova Scotia” means the wage

reported by Statistics Canada as ‘Average weekly earnings, for all employees,

industrial aggregate, Nova Scotia’, for the 12-month period ending March 31 in the

preceding calendar year.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), the percentage for purposes of clause 41(

c) of the Act is

135.7%.

(3) The amount derived by multiplying the average industrial wage by 135.7% shall,

for purposes of Sections 41 and 124 of the Act, be rounded to the nearest $100.

Annuities

(1) In this Section,

(a) “principal” means the amount reserved by the Board as an annuity pursuant

to Sections 50 or 66 of the Act; and

(b) “recipient” means the person entitled to receive an annuity pursuant to the

Act.

(2) Where the principal and accrued interest is less than $10 000 at the time the

annuity becomes payable, the Board shall, unless the recipient requests otherwise,

pay the principal and interest to the recipient in a lump sum.

24 [repealed]

Survivor benefits

25 The maximum amount payable pursuant to clause 60(1)(

b) of the Act for transportation

of the body of the worker is:

(a) $500, where the place of death is within the Province; or

(

b) an amount equal to the actual expenses of transportation, where the place of

death is outside the Province.

26 The amount of the death benefit payable pursuant to subclause 60(1)(c)(

i) of the Act is

$15 000.

27 The amount of the dependent-child benefit payable pursuant to clause 60(1)(

d) of the Act

is $196 per month.

Supplementary benefits

28 In Sections 29 to 33,

(a) “applicant” means a worker, dependent spouse or invalid child who

(

i) satisfies the criteria in clauses 227(4)(a), (

b) and (

c) of the Act, and

(ii) has made an application pursuant to clause 29(1)(a);

(b) “average industrial wage for Nova Scotia” means the wage reported by

Statistics Canada as ‘Seasonally Adjusted Estimates of Average Weekly

Earnings, for all employees, industrial aggregate, Nova Scotia’, for the 12-month period ending June 30 in the same calendar year as the

commencement of the benefit year;

(c) “benefit year” means the period beginning on October 1 and ending on

September 30, in every year;

(d) “CPP/QPP” means the Canada Pension Plan or Quebec Pension Plan; and

(e) “supplementary benefit” means the benefit described in subsection 227(4) of

the Act.

(1) A supplementary benefit shall not be paid unless an applicant

(

a) applies in writing to the Board; and

(

b) provides the Board with the information required by the Board from time to

time for determining eligibility for the supplementary benefit.

(1A) Despite clause (1)(a), an applicant in receipt of a supplementary benefit on October

1, 2002, shall not be required to apply for a supplementary benefit for the benefit

year commencing on October 1, 2002.

(2) An applicant who is an injured worker is eligible for a supplementary benefit if the

worker

(

a) is receiving a CPP/QPP disability pension for the worker’s compensable

injury; or

(

b) would, in the opinion of the Board, be eligible for a CPP/QPP disability

pension for the worker’s compensable injury but for insufficient

contributions or lack of contributions to CPP/QPP.

(3) An applicant is eligible for a supplementary benefit until the month after the month

in which the applicant attains the age of sixty-five years.

(4) A supplementary benefit is payable as of the first day of the month in which

application for the supplementary benefit is made, but shall not be payable earlier

than October 1, 2002.

(1) Despite subsection 29(4), a supplementary benefit is payable as of any date fixed

by the Board that is earlier than the date fixed by subsection 29(4), if an applicant

satisfies the criteria in clauses 227(4)(a), (

b) and (

c) of the Act on the date

Section

227 of the Act is proclaimed in force.

(2) A date fixed by the Board pursuant to subsection (1) shall not be earlier than

October 1, 2002

32 The amount of a supplementary benefit is the amount necessary to increase an

applicant’s individual annual personal income to an amount equal to one-half of the

average industrial wage for Nova Scotia.

(1) An applicant’s individual annual personal income is the applicant’s total income

for the calendar year preceding the benefit year minus income received that year in

the form of a supplementary benefit from the Board.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), an applicant’s total income for the calendar year

is as defined by the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency for purposes of

individual income tax returns.

Posting of notices

34 Every employer shall post and keep posted in conspicuous places within easy access of

the employer’s workers

(

a) any card, notice or printed information which the Board directs the

employer to post; and

(

b) a notice informing the employer’s workers of the nearest location at which a

copy of the Act can be viewed or obtained.

Assessments

(1) Unless otherwise approved by the Board, an employer shall

(

a) report the employer’s assessable payroll; and

(

b) remit assessments in respect of the employer’s assessable payroll

to the Board on a periodic basis at the same time as the employer is required to

report and remit to the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency for the purposes of

income tax, Canada Pension Plan contributions, and employment insurance

premiums.

(2) For the purposes of clause (1)(a), subject to subsection 1A(2), assessment

premiums shall be determined by multiplying the employer’s assessable payroll by

the applicable assessment rate per hundred dollars of assessable payroll.

36 Where an employer fails to register with the Board upon becoming an employer, the

employer is liable to a penalty equal to 10% of the employer’s assessment, including the

assessment levied for the period of non-registration.

(1) Where an employer fails to report to the Board

(

a) the employer’s assessable payroll; or

(

b) any information required by the Board pursuant to

Section 127 of the Act,

the employer is liable to a penalty equal to 10% of the assessment premium for the

reporting period.

(2) For purposes of subsection (1), the penalty may be increased to 20% if the Board

determines that the employer

(

a) has wilfully misrepresented information; or

(

b) failed to report in accordance with subsection 35(1) more than once in a 12-month period.

(3) If no assessment premium is remitted by the employer when a remittance is

required pursuant to subsection 35(1), the penalty referred to in subsection (1) may

be based on the weighted average assessment premium for the employer during the

previous 12 months, and months with no assessable payroll shall not be included in

the average.

38 Where an employer does not pay an assessment within the time required by the Board,

the employer is liable for interest on the balance owed calculated at the rate set out in

Sections 4301 and 4302 of the Income Tax Regulations (Canada).

39 Where an employer under-reports the assessable payroll in a report provided to the Board

pursuant to subsection 35(1), the employer is liable for a penalty of

(a) 10% of the difference between the actual assessment required pursuant to

Section 35 and the assessment as originally calculated; and

(

b) interest calculated at the rate set out in Sections 4301 and 4302 of the

Income Tax Regulations (Canada).

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Re-filing claim for post-traumatic stress disorder

40 In subsection 12A(7) of the Act, “re-file” means to re-submit the claim to the Board and

have it adjudicated

(

a) as if for the first time, but based on the application of the presumption set

out in subsection 12A(2) of the Act; and

(

b) without requiring that any evidence presented in support of the claim be

(

i) new evidence, or

(ii) evidence that could not have been presented at the time the claim

was originally denied.

Occupations comprising front-line or emergency-response workers

(1) The following occupations are prescribed as an occupation for the purpose of the

definition of “front-line or emergency-response worker” in clause 12A(1)(

a) of the

Act:

(

a) sheriff; and

(

b) emergency medical responder.

(2) For purposes of the occupations comprising front-line or emergency-response

workers in

Section 12A of the Act, the following

definitions apply:

“continuing-care assistant” means a worker who meets all of the following criteria:

(

i) they are a graduate of a CCA program approved by the Department

of Health and Wellness who has successfully passed the Nova Scotia

CCA provincial examination or an equivalent examination

recognized by the Department and holds a CCA certificate issued or

recognized by the Department as an equivalent of a CCA certificate,

(ii) they provide personal care or support to individuals for activities of

daily living and instrumental activities of daily living;

“correctional officer” means a worker who is directly involved in the care, health,

discipline, safety and custody of an offender in custody in a correctional facility,

including a youth worker employed in a correctional facility, but does not include a

sheriff, probation officer or parole officer;

“emergency medical responder” means a worker who is authorized to practise as

an emergency medical responder under the Regulated Health Professions Act ;

“emergency-response dispatcher” means a worker whose duties include either of

the following:

(

i) dispatching ambulance services, firefighters or police officers,

(ii) receiving emergency calls that initiate the dispatch of ambulance

services, firefighters or police officers;

“firefighter” means a worker and has the same meaning as in subsection 35A(1) of

the Act;

“nurse” means any of the following workers:

(

i) a registered nurse as defined in the Registered Nurses Act or other

person permitted by law to engage in the practice of nursing as

defined in that Act,

(ii) a licensed practical nurse as defined in the Licensed Practical Nurses

Act or other person permitted by law to engage in the practice of

practical nursing as defined in that Act;

“paramedic” means a worker who is a paramedic as defined in the Paramedics

Act ;

“police officer” means a worker who is a police officer appointed under the Police

Act , other than a special constable, by-law enforcement officer or auxiliary police

officer appointed under Sections 88 to 91 of the Police Act , and includes all of the

following:

(

i) a member of an agency as defined in the Police Act , other than a

member of the Provincial Police as defined in the Police Act or the

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act (Canada),

(ii) a chief officer as defined in the Police Act ,

(iii) a member of the Serious Incident Response Team as defined in the

Police Act ,

(iv) an aboriginal police officer appointed under

Section 87 of the Police

Act ;

“sheriff” means a worker appointed as a Chief Sheriff, Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff or

Sheriff Officer under the Civil Service Act for purposes of providing sheriff

services to the Province, including court facility security, prisoner transportation

and civil enforcement.

(3) In subsection (2),

“CCA” means a continuing-care assistant;

“correctional facility” means a correctional facility as defined in the Correctional

Services Act and, for the purposes of the Government Employees Compensation

Act (Canada), includes a penitentiary as defined in the Corrections and

Conditional Release Act (Canada).

Prescribed diagnosticians

42 All of the following persons are prescribed diagnosticians for purposes of

Section 12A of

the Act:

(

a) a psychiatrist as defined in the Hospitals Act or an individual who has a

similar status in another province of Canada;

(

b) a registered psychologist as defined in the Psychologists Act or an individual

who has a similar status in another province of Canada.

Date presumption in

Section 12A of Act applies

43 The date on and after which the presumption created by subsection 12A(2) of the Act

applies is October 26, 2013.

Application of presumption—period for diagnosis after ceasing employment

44 The period for diagnosing a worker under clause 12A(4)(

b) of the Act after the worker

ceases to be employed as a front-line or emergency-response worker is unlimited.

Deadline for filing claim for compensation after diagnosis

45 The period for filing a claim for compensation in clause 83(2A)(

b) of the Act after a

worker is diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder is 5 years.

Definition for clause 10J(2)(

a) of Act

46 In clause 10J(2)(

a) of the Act,

“workplace harassment or bullying” means a single significant occurrence or a

course of repeated occurrences of objectionable or unwelcome conduct, comment

or action in the workplace that, whether intended or not, degrades, intimidates or

threatens, and includes all of the following, but does not include any action taken

by an employer or supervisor relating to the management and direction of a worker

or the workplace:

(

i) workplace harassment or bullying that is based on any personal

characteristic, including, but not limited to, a characteristic referred to

in clauses 5(1)(

h) to (

v) of the Human Rights Act ,

(ii) inappropriate sexual conduct, including, but not limited to, sexual

solicitation or advances, sexually suggestive remarks or gestures,

circulating or sharing inappropriate images or unwanted physical

contact.

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Appendix “A”

∙ Abattoirs, including preparation of meats and manufacturing of meat products

∙ Agricultural implements manufacturing

∙ Aircraft manufacturing and assembling, not including aerial testing, flying or

demonstrating

∙ Artificial ice manufacturing

∙ Automobile assembly and manufacturing

∙ Aviation and aerial transportation

∙ Awning and tent manufacturing, sail making and burlap manufacturing

∙ Axe manufacturing

∙ Bakeries

∙ Bakeries and manufacturing of confectionery

∙ Barytes mining and milling

∙ Beverage manufacturing and breweries

∙ Bill posting

∙ Blacksmith shops

∙ Boat building, including manufacture of blocks and spars for ships

∙ Boiler scaling and cleaning

∙ Boiler making, machine shops, general metal repairs and marine engineering

∙ Bolt, nut and other metal products manufacturing

∙ Bookbinding and printing

∙ Boot and shoe manufacturing

∙ Box shooks manufacturing and box making

∙ Brick, tile, pottery, sewer pipe manufacturing

∙ Bridge building, operation of bridges

∙ Broadcasting stations

∙ Building

∙ Building construction: carpentry, cellar excavation, concrete, brick or masonry

work in connection with building construction, glazing or installation of

plate or leaded glass, lathing, installation of mantels or grates, paper-hanging, decorating and renovating, plastering, painting, roofing and

building moving

∙ Bus transportation service

∙ Butter, cheese and other dairy products manufacturing

∙ Cable or telephone system

∙ Canneries

∙ Canning

∙ Carbonic acid gas manufacturing and manufacturing of dry ice and bottling and

distributing propane gas

∙ Carpet and rug manufacturing

∙ Catering

∙ Cement manufacturing

∙ Chimneys or stacks, elevated water tanks, stand-pipes or water towers, steeples

∙ Cider manufacturing and syrup and extracts manufacturing and distillery

∙ Cleaning products manufacturing

∙ Cleaning and dyeing

∙ Clothing manufacturing

∙ Coal mining

∙ Coal yards, including delivery

∙ Coffin and casket manufacturing

∙ Cold storage plants

∙ Cold storage warehouses

∙ Condensed milk manufacturing

∙ Construction

∙ Construction of electric power plants

∙ Cooperage stock (assembling) with machinery or handwork

∙ Cordage manufacturing

∙ Creosoting timber

∙ Cutlery manufacturing

∙ Cutting and selling of Christmas trees

∙ Dairies

∙ Decorating

∙ Departmental and mail order stores

∙ Distributing fuel oil and installation of heating equipment, when in conjunction

∙ Dredging

∙ Drilling

∙ Drug manufacturing

∙ Dry docks operation and steel ship building and repairs

∙ Dyeing and cleaning

∙ Electric wiring of buildings, installation of electrical systems and fixtures

∙ Electric light and power plants operation and maintenance, extension of lines and

making service connections

∙ Electric light or power plant or system

∙ Elevators

∙ Enamel ware manufacturing

∙ Engine manufacturing

∙ Engine and machinery installation and repairs

∙ Engineering

∙ Excavation

∙ Express companies

∙ Fertilizer manufacturing

∙ Fish curing and packing, marine products manufacturing, and canning of lobsters

and other shellfish

∙ Fishing, sealing, whaling and dredging

∙ Foundries

∙ Fruit evaporating

∙ Fruit packing, feed mixing and combining

∙ Furniture manufacturing

∙ Garages, including motor vehicle repairs and vulcanizing, auto sales and service,

and service stations

∙ General stores

∙ Geophysical explorations

∙ Grist mills

∙ Handling of hides

∙ Hat and cap manufacturing

∙ Heating and sanitary engineering

∙ Highway bridge and overpass construction

∙ Hotels, restaurants, taverns, lounges, motels and catering

∙ Ice harvesting, storing and delivery

∙ Jewellery manufacturing and lens manufacturing

∙ Junk dealers and junk scrapping

∙ Landscaping

∙ Laundries

∙ Leather goods manufacturing and rubber stamps manufacturing

∙ Lithographing and engraving

∙ Lumbering: logging, woods operations, river driving, rafting, booming, cutting and

peeling pulpwood, sawmills, shingle mills, lath mills, rossing plants,

excelsior mills, cooperage stock manufacturing with sawmills, hauling and

loading on cars or vessels, as a business or in an industry in this group, and

surveying of lines of timberlands in an industry in this group; Christmas tree

operations and the construction and repair of dams, camps, sawmills and

other buildings

∙ Lumber yards, lumber yards (commercial)

∙ Machinery and engine installation and repairs

∙ Manufacture of shipping containers

∙ Manufacture, sale and distribution of artificial ice

∙ Manufacturing

∙ Manufacturing of warm air furnaces

∙ Manufacturing of concrete products

∙ Manufacturing television sets, radar and electronic instruments

∙ Marine railway and dry dock operations

∙ Marine railway operation

∙ Mattress manufacturing

∙ Milk dealers and ice cream manufacturing, including delivery

∙ Mining

∙ Mining not otherwise classified

∙ Oil refining

∙ Operation of any railway, tramway, telegraph, cable or telephone system

∙ Operation of hospitals, nursing homes, homes for the aged, welfare homes,

municipal homes, convalescent homes and veterinary hospitals

∙ Oxygen and dissolved acetylene gas manufacturing

∙ Packing houses

∙ Paint manufacturing

∙ Painting

∙ Peat processing

∙ Plaster milling

∙ Plastics manufacture, manufacture of hardboard

∙ Plumbing, including house connections, and heating

∙ Printing

∙ Prospecting and development of mining properties

∙ Prospecting, development and geophysical explorations, boring or sinking artesian

wells as a business, diamond drilling

∙ Pulp and paper mill

∙ Pulp manufacturing

∙ Quarrying

∙ Rafting of lumber

∙ Railroad car manufacturing

∙ Railroad construction

∙ Railroad operation

∙ Refrigeration

∙ Renovating

∙ Restaurants

∙ Retail stores and establishments

∙ Riverdriving

∙ Road and street making and paving

∙ Road construction and repairs

∙ Rock wool manufacturing

∙ Rolling mills

∙ Salt mining

∙ Salt processing and refining

∙ Sand, clay and gravel digging

∙ Scavenging

∙ Sealing

∙ Service stations

∙ Sewer construction

∙ Sewers, waterworks, gas works, and any public utility

∙ Sheet metal works

∙ Shipbuilding

∙ Spice mills

∙ Spring bed manufacturing

∙ Steam packing and insulation manufacturing

∙ Steel and iron works

∙ Stevedoring

∙ Stone cutting, dressing and polishing

∙ Stone crushing

∙ Street cleaning,

∙ Streets and sidewalks maintenance and construction carried on by municipalities

∙ Structural steel erection

∙ Structural steel - iron and metal fabrication

∙ Sugar refining

∙ Supermarkets

∙ Tanks—erection of steel storage tanks when placed on the ground

∙ Tanning

∙ Tar manufacturing

∙ Taverns and lounges

∙ Teaming

∙ Telegraph & telephone companies: operation, maintenance, extension of lines, etc.

∙ Telegraph & telephone companies: office and exchange employees

∙ Textile manufacturing

∙ Theatres

∙ Tinsmith shop and can manufacturing

∙ Transportation

∙ Trucking and transportation - automotive

∙ Warehouses

∙ Warehouses, not otherwise classified

∙ Waterworks construction

∙ Waterworks operation

∙ Whaling

∙ Wharf and breakwater construction

∙ Wholesale stores and establishments

∙ Window cleaning

∙ Wooden articles manufacturing not otherwise classified

∙ Wooden shipbuilding

∙ Woodworking factories and planing and moulding mills, without rotary saw

∙ Yeast manufacturing

and any occupation incidental to or immediately connected with any of the industries or

operations mentioned above.

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Appendix “B”

Description of diseases

Description of process

anthrax

handling of wool, hair, bristles, hides and skins

carbon monoxide poisoning

any process of work involving exposure to carbon

monoxide

lead poisoning or its sequelae

any process involving the use of lead or its

preparations or compounds

mercury poisoning or its sequelae

any process involving the use of mercury or its

preparations or compounds

phosphorus poisoning or its sequelae

any process involving the use of phosphorus or its

preparations or compounds

arsenic poisoning or sequelae

any process involving the use of arsenic or its

preparations or compounds

ankylostomiasis

mining

subcutaneous cellulitis of the hand (beat

hand)

mining

subcutaneous cellulitis over the patella

(miner’s beat knee)

mining

acute bursitis over the elbow (miner’s

beat elbow)

mining

frostbite

any outdoor work

dermatitis venenata

any industrial process involving the handling or use

of irritants capable of causing or producing

dermatitis venenata

epitheliomatous cancer or ulceration of

the skin due to tar, pitch, bitumen,

mineral oil or paraffin or any

compound, product or residue of any of

these substances

handling or use of tar, pitch, bitumen, mineral oil or

paraffin, or any compound, product or residue of

any of these substances

coal miners’ pneumonoconiosis

coal mining

tenosynovitis (simple)

any process involving constantly repeated vibration

or excessive use of muscles of arm, forearm, hand,

leg, ankle or foot

any disease or disability due to

exposure to X-rays, radium, or other

radioactive substances

any process in the refining of radium or other

radioactive substances or involving exposure to X-rays

Legislative History

Reference Tables

Workers’ Compensation General Regulations

N.S. Reg.

22/1996

Workers’ Compensation Act

Note: The

information in these tables does not form part of the regulations and is

compiled by the Office of the Registrar of Regulations for reference only.

Source Law

The current consolidation of the Workers’ Compensation General Regulations made

under the Workers’ Compensation Act includes all of the following regulations:

N.S.

Regulation

In force

date*

How in force

Royal Gazette

Part II Issue

22/1996

Feb 1, 1996

date specified

Feb 16, 1996

153/1996

Jan 1, 1997

date specified

Sep 27, 1996

78/1997

Jan 1, 1997

date specified

Jul 18, 1997

144/1999

Jan 1, 2000

date specified

Dec 31, 1999

17/2000

Feb 2, 2000

date specified

Feb 25, 2000

195/2000

Dec 1, 2000

date specified

Dec 15, 2000

2/2002

Jan 1, 2002

date specified

Jan 11, 2002

146/2002

Oct 1, 2002

date specified

Dec 13, 2002

327/2009

Dec 7, 2009

date specified

Dec 18, 2009

183/2018

Oct 26, 2018

date specified

Oct 26, 2018

167/2020

Oct 30, 2020

date specified

Nov 20, 2020

151/2024

Sep 1, 2024

date specified

Aug 9, 2024

189/2025

Sep 23, 2025

date specified

Oct 3, 2025

254/2025

Oct 26, 2018

date specified

Nov 28, 2025

The following regulations are not yet in force and are

not included in the current consolidation:

N.S.

Regulation

In force

date*

How in force

Royal Gazette

Part II Issue

*See subsection 3(6) of the Regulations Act for

rules about in force dates of regulations.

Amendments by Provision

ad. = added

am. = amended

fc. = fee change

ra. = reassigned

rep. = repealed

rs . = repealed and substituted

Provision affected

How affected

1A .....................................................

ad. 144/1999

8 ........................................................

rep. 17/2000

9(1)(c) ..............................................

am. 167/2020

20 ......................................................

rs . 195/2000

20(c)(v) .......................................

rs . 144/1999

20(c)(vii) .....................................

rs . 144/1999

20(c)(ix) ......................................

ad. 144/1999

21 ......................................................

am. 167/2020

22(2)-(3) ...........................................

am. 153/1996, 2/2002, 327/2009

24 ......................................................

rep. 151/2024

28(b) .................................................

ra. as 28(c) 146/2002

28(b) .................................................

ad. 146/2002

28(c) .................................................

ra. as 28(d) 146/2002

28(c) .................................................

ra. from 28(b) 146/2002 ; am. 146/2002

28(c)(i)-(ii) ..................................

rep. 146/2002

28(d) .................................................

ra. as 28(e) 146/2002

28(d) .................................................

ra. from 28(c) 146/2002

28(e) .................................................

ra. from 28(d) 146/2002

29(1) .................................................

am. 146/2002

29(1)(a)-(b) .................................

rs . 146/2002

29(1A) ..............................................

ad. 146/2002

29(4) .................................................

am. 146/2002

30(1) .................................................

am. 146/2002

30(1)(a)-(b) .................................

rep. 146/2002

30(2) .................................................

am. 146/2002

32-33 ................................................

rs . 146/2002

35 ......................................................

rs . 144/1999

37-39 ................................................

rs . 144/1999

39(1)(d) ............................................

am. 78/1997

40 ......................................................

rep. 144/1999

40 ......................................................

ad. 183/2018

41 ......................................................

ad. 183/2018

41(1) ............................................

rs . 189/2025

41(2), defn . of “emergency

medical responder” ..................

ad. 189/2025

41(2), defn . of

“firefighter” ........

rs . 254/2025

42-45 ................................................

ad. 183/2018

46 ......................................................

ad. 151/2024

Appendixes

Appendix “A” ..................................

am. 17/2000

Note that changes to headings are not

included in the above table.

Editorial Notes and Corrections:

Note

Effective

date

The Registered Nurses Act referred to in s.

41(2) is repealed by s. 182 of the Nursing Act , S.N.S. 2019, c.

8. Refer to the Nursing Act ,

S.N.S. 2019, c. 8 for continued registration and licensing of nurses.

Jun 4, 2019

The Licensed Practical Nurses Act referred to in

s. 41(2) is repealed by s. 182 of the Nursing Act , S.N.S. 2019, c.

8. Refer to the Nursing Act ,

S.N.S. 2019, c. 8 for continued registration and licensing of nurses.

Jun 4, 2019

Repealed and Superseded:

N.S.

Regulation

Title

In force

date

Repealed

date

77/1995

Workers’ Compensation Supplementary Benefit Regulations

Oct 1, 1995

Oct 1, 2002

Note: Only

regulations that are specifically repealed and replaced appear in this

table. It may not reflect the entire

history of regulations on this subject matter.