Section 32 of The Work Injury Benefits Act CAP 236: Compensation for permanent disablement of employee in training

(1) In awarding compensation to an employee in respect of permanent disablement or in reviewing an award of compensation, the Director may take into account any compensation awarded to the employee...

(1) If an employee dies as a result of an injury caused by an accident, compensation shall be paid to the dependants of the employee in accordance with the provisions of the Third Schedule, subject to...

The Minister may, on the recommendation of the Director, and after consultation with the Board, amend the Third Schedule by notice in the Gazette in respect of the nature, extent, minimum and maximum...

(1) Compensation payable in accordance with the provisions of this Act may, for reasons deemed by the Director to be sufficient, be— (a) paid to the employee or the dependant of an employee...

(1) In order to determine compensation, the earnings of an employee are deemed to be the monthly rate at which the employee was being remunerated by the employer at the time of the accident,...

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, an employee is entitled to compensation in accordance with this Act, if the employee— (a) contracts a disease specified in the Second Schedule that arose...

If an employee who has contracted an occupational disease specified in the Second Schedule was employed in any work mentioned in that Schedule in respect of that disease, it shall be presumed, unless...

(1) Compensation for an occupational disease shall be calculated on the basis of the earnings of the employee calculated in accordance with the provisions of section 35— (a) at the time of the...

(1) An employee shall as soon as possible after the commencement of an occupational disease give written notice thereof to the employer or to the employer where the employee was last employed, and in...

(1) For purposes of this Act, the commencement of an occupational disease is deemed to be the date on which a medical practitioner diagnosed that disease for the first time or such earlier date as...

The Minister may, on the recommendation of the Council and in consultation with the Director, amend the Second Schedule by notice in the Gazette, in respect of the description of diseases and work:...

(1) The Director may, after consultation with the Council and in consultation with the Director of Medical Services, appoint medical advisory panels which shall consist of such members as may be...

(1) An employer shall provide and maintain such appliances and services for the rendering of first aid to his employees in case of any accident as may be prescribed in any other written law in...

(1) If an employee is injured in an accident, which necessitates the employee’s conveyance to a hospital medical facility or from a hospital or medical facility to the employee’s residence, the...

(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, an employer shall defray any expenses reasonably incurred by an employee as the result of an accident arising out of, and in the course of the employers...

(1) A medical practitioner who examines an employee shall within fourteen days after the first examination of the employee injured in an accident or within fourteen days after having diagnosed an...

The fees and charges for medical aid to a employee shall be in accordance with the scale prescribed by the Minister, from time to time, after consultation with the Council and such bodies or...

(1) An employer who demands, receives, deducts or recovers from an employee a contribution towards the cost of medical aid supplied or to be supplied in accordance with the provisions of this Act,...

(1) Any person aggrieved by a decision of the Director on any matter under this Act, may within sixty days of such decision, lodge an objection with the Director an objection against such decision....

(1) The Director shall within fourteen days after the receipt of an objection in the prescribed form, give a written answer to the objection, varying or upholding his decision and giving reasons for...

(1) There shall be a Director of Work Injury Benefits who shall be responsible for the management of this Act. (2) The Director of Work Injury Benefits shall perform the following functions— (a)...

Any person who in connection with a claim for compensation in accordance with the provisions of this Act, or in any return, notice, report or statement to be given, made or furnished under this Act,...

A person convicted of an offence under this Act for which no other penalty is provided shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a term not...

(1) The Minister may make regulations for the purpose of giving better effect to the provisions of this Act and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, the Minister may make...

The Workman’s Compensation Act is repealed.

(1) Any regulation or other instrument made or issued under the Workmen’s Compensation Act and having effect before the commencement of this Act shall continue to have effect as if such regulation or...