DEFINITIONS:

 

 

1. "Dependant" means any of the following relatives of a deceased insured person, namely:-

a.       A widow, a minor legitimate or adopted son, an unmarried legitimate and adopted

b.       A widowed mother

c.        If wholly dependent on the earnings of the insured person at the time of his death, a legitimate or adopted son or daughter who has attained the age of eighteen years and is infirm

d.       If wholly or in part dependent on the earnings of the insured person at the time of his death

                                                              i.      A parent other than a widowed mother

                                                             ii.      A minor illegitimate son, an unmarried illegitimate daughter or a daughter legitimate or adopted or illegitimate if married and a minor or if widowed and a minor

                                                           iii.      A minor brother or an unmarried sister or a widowed sister if a minor

                                                          iv.      A widowed daughter-in-law

                                                           v.      A minor child of a pre-deceased son

                                                          vi.      A minor child of a pre-deceased daughter where no parent of the child is alive, or

                                                        vii.      A paternal grand-parent if no parent of the insured person is alive

 

2. "Permanent Partial Disablement" means such disablement of a permanent nature, as reduces the earning capacity of an employee in every employment which he was capable of undertaking at the time of the accident resulting in the disablement

 

Provided that every injury specified in Part II of the Second Schedule shall be deemed to result in permanent partial disablement

 

3. "Permanent total Disablement" means such disablement of a permanent nature as incapacitates an employee for all work which he was capable of performing at the time of the accident resulting in such disablement

 

Provided that permanent total disablement shall be deemed to result from every injury specified in Part I of the Second Schedule or from any combination of injuries specified in

 

Part II thereof where the aggregate percentage of the loss of earning capacity, as specified in the said Part II against those injuries, amounts to one hundred per cent. Or more

 

 

4. "Sickness" means a condition which requires medical treatment and attendance and necessitates abstention from work on medical grounds

 

5. "Temporary Disablement" means a condition resulting from an employment injury which requires medical treatment and renders an employee, as a result of such injury, temporarily incapable of [doing the work which he was doing prior to or at the time of the injury]
6. "Wages" means all remuneration paid or payable, in cash to an employee, if the terms of the contract of employment, express or implied, were fulfilled and includes