Second

Session, 50th General Assembly

Charles III, 2022

BILL 12

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

WORKPLACE HEALTH, SAFETY AND COMPENSATION ACT

Received

and Read the First Time ................................................................

Second

Reading ............................................................................................

Committee .....................................................................................................

Third

Reading ...............................................................................................

Royal

Assent .................................................................................................

HONOURABLE BERNARD

DAVIS

Minister

Responsible for Workplace NL

Ordered to be printed by

the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY

NOTES

This Bill would amend the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Act

to expand presumptive cancer coverage for firefighters and add presumptive

cardiac coverage for firefighters.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE WORKPLACE HEALTH,

SAFETY AND COMPENSATION ACT

Analysis

S.92.1 Amdt.

Definitions

S.92.4 Amdt.

Application

Commencement

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cW-11

as amended

(1) Paragraph 92.1(

e) of the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Act

is amended by deleting the word "or" at the end of subparagraph (x),

deleting the semi-colon and the word "and" at the end of subparagraph

(xi) and substituting a comma and adding immediately after that subparagraph

the following:

(xii) a primary site

penile cancer,

(xiii) a primary site

pancreatic cancer,

(xiv) a primary site thyroid

cancer,

(xv) multiple myeloma,

(xvi) a primary site

prostate cancer,

(xvii) a primary site

cervical cancer,

(xviii) a primary site

ovarian cancer,

(xix) a primary site skin

cancer, or

(2) Paragraph 92.1(

e) of the Act is amended by

adding immediately after subparagraph (xix) the following:

(xx) an injury to the

heart that manifests within 24 hours after attendance at an emergency response;

and

Section 92.4 of the Act is repealed and the

following substituted:

Application

92.4

(1) The presumption in

section 92.2 applies to

(

a) a firefighter who is diagnosed

with a listed disease referred to in subparagraphs 92.1(e)(

i) to (xi) on or

after December 14, 2015;

(

b) a volunteer firefighter who is

diagnosed with a listed disease referred to in subparagraphs 92.1(e)(

i) to (xi)

on or after January 1, 2017;

(

c) a firefighter or volunteer firefighter who is

diagnosed with a listed disease referred to in subparagraphs 92.1(e)(xii) to

(xix) on or after December 18, 2019; and

(

d) a firefighter or volunteer firefighter who is

diagnosed with a listed disease referred to in subparagraph 92.1(e)(xx) on or after

November 30, 2022.

Commencement

3. (1) Subsection 1(1) is considered to have come

into force on December 18, 2019.

(2) Subsection 1(2) comes into force on November

30, 2022.

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