Section 16
Payment and recovery of hospital expenses by employer
of Workers' Minimum Standards of Housing and Amenities Act 1990
It shall be the duty of every employer to provide for every employee employed on an estate including his dependants who reside on such estate or on any other land owned or leased by or is within the control of the employer, medical attendance, care and treatment including diet at the estate hospital or group estate hospital established under section 15 or at the estate clinic established under section 19.
*NOTE—This Act has been repealed by the Private Healthcare Facilities and Services Act 1998
[Act 586] which comes into operation on 1 May 2006–see section 119 of Act 586 and P.U. (B) 93/2006.
Employees’ Minimum Standards of Housing,
Accommodations and Amenities 21
(2)
The employer may recover from such employee the expenses of such care, treatment and maintenance at such rate as the Minister may from time to time prescribe by notification in the Gazette in respect of any period in excess of thirty days during which such employee or any of his dependants shall have remained in the hospital.