Second

Session, 50th General Assembly

Charles III, 2023

BILL 48

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

WORKPLACE HEALTH, SAFETY AND COMPENSATION ACT, 2022

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

Second

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

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

Third

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Royal

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

HONOURABLE BERNARD

DAVIS

Minister of

Environment and Climate Change

Ordered to be printed by

the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation

Act, 2022 to provide Workplace NL with the authority to pay for bereavement

counselling services for dependents of a worker who, as a result of an injury,

dies on or after January 1, 2022.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE WORKPLACE HEALTH,

SAFETY AND COMPENSATION ACT, 2022

Analysis

S.75 Amdt.

Compensation where fatal accident

S.150 Amdt.

Commission regulations

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2022 cW-11.1

Section 75 of the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Act, 2022 is amended by adding

immediately after subsection (1) the following:

(1.1) Where, as a result of an injury, a worker dies

on or after January 1, 2022, the commission may, in accordance with the

regulations, pay for bereavement counselling for the worker's surviving dependent

spouse or cohabiting partner and children.

2. Subsection 150(1) of the Act is amended by

adding immediately after paragraph (

k) the following:

(k.1) respecting the payment of bereavement

counselling for a worker's surviving dependent spouse or cohabiting partner and

children;

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