Malaysia legislation
Section 15
Section 15
Subject to this Act, the insured persons, their dependants or the persons hereinafter mentioned, as the case may be, shall be entitled to the following benefits, namely:
(a)
periodical payments to an insured person in case of invalidity certified by a duly appointed medical board or by an authority specified in this behalf by the regulations
(hereinafter referred to as invalidity pension);
(b)
periodical payments to an insured person suffering from disablement as a result of an employment injury sustained as an employee under this Act and certified to be eligible to such payments by an authority specified in this behalf by the regulations (hereinafter referred to as disablement benefit);
(c)
periodical payments to such dependants of an insured person who dies as a result of an employment injury sustained as an employee under this Act (hereinafter referred to as dependants’ benefit);
(d)
payments for funeral benefit or expenses, as the case may be, to the person mentioned in section 29 on the death of an insured person as a result of an employment injury sustained as an employee under this Act or while he was in receipt of disablement benefit under this Act, or of an insured person suffering from invalidity while in receipt of invalidity pension under this Act, or of an insured person who has not attained sixty years of age but has completed a full or reduced qualifying period mentioned in
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subsections 29(3) and (4) (hereinafter referred to as funeral benefit);
(e)
periodical payments to an insured person who is in receipt of invalidity pension or disablement benefit if and so long as he is so severely incapacitated or disabled as to constantly require the personal attendance of another person (hereinafter referred to as constant-attendance allowance):
Provided that the existence of the degree of incapacity qualifying an invalid or disabled insured person for constant-attendance allowance shall be verified by a duly appointed medical board or the appellate medical board or any other authority specified in this behalf by the regulations, in such manner as is prescribed by the regulations;
(f)
medical treatment for and attendance on insured persons suffering from disablement as a result of an employment injury sustained as an employee under this Act (hereinafter referred to as medical benefit);
(g)
periodical payments to dependants of an insured person who dies while in receipt of invalidity pension, or of an insured person who has not attained sixty years of age but has completed a full or reduced qualifying period for survivors’ pension mentioned in subsections 17A(2) and (3)
(hereinafter referred to as survivors’ pension).
When person considered as suffering from invalidity