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Workers’ Compensation General Regulations

made under Section 184 of the

Workers’ Compensation Act

S.N.S. 1994-95, c. 10

O.I.C. 96-59 (effective February 1, 1996), N.S. Reg. 22/1996

amended to O.I.C. 2024-291 (effective September 1, 2024), N.S. Reg. 151/2024



Table of Contents


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Citation

[Definition of “assessable payroll”]

Scope of coverage—inclusion of industries

Scope of coverage—exclusion of industries

Scope of coverage—exclusion of classes of workers

Scope of coverage—exclusion of class of employers

Occupational diseases

Earnings

Minimum and maximum earnings

Annuities

Survivor benefits

Supplementary benefits

Posting of notices

Assessments

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Occupations comprising front-line or emergency-response workers

Prescribed diagnosticians

Date presumption in Section 12A of Act applies

Application of presumption—period for diagnosis after ceasing employment

Deadline for filing claim for compensation after diagnosis

Definition for clause 10J(2)(a) of Act

 

Appendix “A”

 

Appendix “B”



 


Citation

1        These regulations may be cited as the Workers’ Compensation General Regulations.


[Definition of “assessable payroll”]

1A     (1)    In these regulations “assessable payroll” includes employment earnings reportable to the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency in Box 14 of T4 slips, labelled as “Employment Income” or “Gross Earnings”, but does not include

 

                   (a)      earnings in excess of the maximum amount for a worker’s gross annual earnings determined as maximum earnings pursuant to clause 41(c) of the Act;

 

                   (b)     earnings of classes of workers excluded from the Act;

 

                   (c)      employer-funded short and long-term disability benefits;

 

                   (d)     employer-funded top-up of workers’ compensation benefits, wage-loss replacement plans, maternity and parental benefits; or

 

                   (e)      an amount included in Box 14 of a T4 slip that is an allowance for equipment used at the employee’s expense provided for in subclause 8(1)(i)(iii) of the Income Tax Act (Canada).

 

          (2)    For greater certainty, nothing in these regulations shall be interpreted as limiting the discretion of the Board to determine, for the purposes of Section 9 of the Act, the amount that shall be deemed to be the earnings of a worker, and to determine the assessment to be remitted by a person who is deemed to be an employer pursuant to Section 9 of the Act.


Scope of coverage—inclusion of industries

2        Subject to Sections 3 to 18, employers and workers engaged in, about or in connection with the industries listed in Appendix “A” are subject to the operation of the Act.


Scope of coverage—exclusion of industries

3        Despite Section 2, employers and workers engaged in, about or in connection with the following industries are excluded from the operation of the Act:

 

                   (a)      the business of a florist or seedman, seed growing, gardening and horticulture; the keeping or breeding of livestock, poultry or bees; fruit growing; the picking, grading, packing, hauling, handling and storage of fruit or vegetables;

 

                   (b)     barber shops and shoe shine establishments;

 

                   (c)      undertaking and funeral directing;

 

                   (d)     educational institutions, surgical medical, veterinary work and dental surgery;

 

                   (e)      taxidermy;

 

                   (f)      work upon golf courses, tennis grounds, grounds used for open air sports, games or athletics when performed by workers of the owner or occupier;

 

                   (g)     the operation of taxicabs;

 

                   (h)     all operations and work carried on by means of a ship, boat or vessel of any kind or performed by the members of the crew thereof, that are not included in the industries listed in Appendix “A” of these regulations; and

 

                   (i)      fishing, sealing and dredging before the first day of January, 1970.

 

4        (1)    Subject to subsection (2), marine wrecking, marine salving, the landing, warehousing and caring for property so salved, all operations in or about a ship wrecked, or in distress, and all work incidental to any of the foregoing are excluded from the application of the Act.

 

          (2)    Subsection (1) does not apply if the work is

 

                   (a)      performed by an employer who is assessed with respect to any industry which includes such operations;

 

                   (b)     carried on by means of a steamship whose general operations at the time are within the application of the Act; or

 

                   (c)      performed for the employer by the members of the crew of the ship wrecked or in distress and the industry in which the ship is engaged is at the time within the application of the Act.

 

          (3)    In the cases mentioned in subsection (2), the employer is liable for such special or additional assessment with respect to the operations as the Board may make.

 

5        Every industry which, if carried on by an employer carrying on no other industry, would not be an industry to which the Act applies, is excluded from the application of the Act when it is carried on as a separate business or undertaking by an employer who is also carrying on an industry to which the Act applies.

 

6        (1)    Anything not itself carried on or done by the employer as a business or trade, which but for this Section would be an industry to which the Act applies, is excluded from the application of the Act, except when it is carried on or performed as part of, or as a process in, or as incidental to, an industry to which the Act applies.

 

          (2)    This Section does not apply to any industry carried on by or for a city, town or municipality, or a public utility, or to anything incidental thereto.

 

7        When an industry is carried on by a city, town or municipal corporation, the work in connection with the industry that is performed by the mayor, warden, councillors, aldermen, clerk, treasurer or manager, is excluded from the application of the Act.

 

8        [repealed]


Scope of coverage—exclusion of classes of workers

9        (1)    The following persons are excluded from the Act:

 

                   (a)      persons whose employment is of a casual nature when they are employed otherwise than for the purposes of the employer’s trade or business;

 

                   (b)     outworkers;

 

                   (c)      persons employed by a city, town or municipal corporation as members of a police force or the fire department, except volunteer firefighters to whom Part I of the Act applies; and

 

                   (d)     farm labourers or domestic or menial servants or their employers.

 

          (2)    In this Section, “outworker” means a person to whom articles or materials are given out to be made up, cleaned, washed, altered, ornamented, finished, repaired or adapted for sale in the person’s own home or on other premises not under the direct or indirect control or management of the person who gave out the articles or materials.

 

10      All actors, players, artists and entertainers and all members of a company or troupe of actors, players or entertainers and the work performed by them in a theatre or broadcasting station, as well as all work incidental to their engagement or performances are excluded from the application of the Act.

 

11      (1)    Any director or officer of an incorporated company who performs no services for the company except to attend directors’ meetings, and the work so performed, are excluded from the Act.

 

          (2)    Where a director or officer of an incorporated company holds the position of President, Vice-President, or any other office and receives no remuneration for services other than such amount as may be allowed to each director of the company for attending directors’ meetings, such persons and the work performed by them are excluded from the Act.

 

12      Persons receiving remuneration for soliciting subscriptions for or selling newspapers and other periodicals or for writing editorials, news items or articles or for making collections, but who do not perform any other duties in connection with the newspaper, magazine or other publication and do not in connection with their duties occupy or use any office, room or space in the building in which the newspaper, magazine or publication is printed or in which are editorial, business or other offices, or in which the type is set up or the machinery is installed, are excluded from the application of the Act.

 

13      Persons employed by a telephone company to perform services in a house or building not owned, occupied or controlled by the company and whose time is not wholly devoted during office hours to the work of the employer, are excluded from the application of the Act and the services performed by those employees are excluded from the application of the Act.

 

14      Travelling sales workers when they are the only workers employed in an industry are excluded from the application of the Act.


Scope of coverage—exclusion of class of employers

15      Subject to Sections 16 to 18, every business or undertaking is excluded from the application of the Act until at least three workers are at the same time employed in the business or undertaking.

 

16      Where a business or undertaking is being carried on

 

                   (a)      partly by the employer and partly by one or more contractors; or

 

                   (b)     entirely by two or more contractors of an employer,

 

the business or undertaking is not excluded from the application of the Act after the time three or more workers are at the same time employed in the business or undertaking.

 

17      When counting the number of workers for purposes of Section 15, “worker” includes

 

                   (a)      a person who would be a worker but for the operation of clause 2(ae)(xiii) of the Act; and

 

                   (b)     an officer, director or manager of an employer, where the person is

 

                              (i)      actively engaged in the business but not carried on the payroll of the business at the person’s actual earnings, or

 

                              (ii)     not actively engaged in the business but carried on the payroll of the business.

 

18      For greater certainty, the definition of “worker” in Section 17

 

                   (a)      is made solely for purposes of counting the number of workers for purposes of Section 15;

 

                   (b)     does not operate to make a person described in Section 17 a “worker” for purposes of the Act; and

 

                   (c)      does not entitle any person described in Section 17 to compensation under the Act.


Occupational diseases

19      The processes, trades or occupations, and the corresponding occupational diseases listed in Appendix “B” are listed for the purposes of subsection 12(3) of the Act.


Earnings

20      (1)    A worker’s gross average earnings are the total of

 

                   (a)      the worker’s regular salary or wages; and

 

                   (b)     after the first 26 weeks of earnings-replacement benefits or for purposes of benefits other than earnings-replacement benefits and extended earnings-replacement benefits, income from

 

                              (i)      overtime that is not regular salary or wages, and

 

                              (ii)     federal employment insurance benefits other than those payable as maternity or parental leave benefits.

 

          (2)    For the purposes of calculating net average earnings under subsection 39(1) of the Act, earnings-related expenses shall be deducted from gross average earnings.


Minimum and maximum earnings

21      The gross annual earnings of a member of a volunteer fire department to whom Part I of the Act applies shall be

 

                   (a)      a minimum of $10 200 dollars, and

 

                   (b)     a maximum of the amount determined as maximum earnings pursuant to clause 41(c) of the Act.

 

22      (1)    In this Section, “average industrial wage for Nova Scotia” means the wage reported by Statistics Canada as ‘Average weekly earnings, for all employees, industrial aggregate, Nova Scotia’, for the 12-month period ending March 31 in the preceding calendar year.

 

          (2)    Subject to subsection (3), the percentage for purposes of clause 41(c) of the Act is 135.7%.

 

          (3)    The amount derived by multiplying the average industrial wage by 135.7% shall, for purposes of Sections 41 and 124 of the Act, be rounded to the nearest $100.


Annuities

23      (1)    In this Section,

 

                   (a)      “principal” means the amount reserved by the Board as an annuity pursuant to Sections 50 or 66 of the Act; and

 

                   (b)     “recipient” means the person entitled to receive an annuity pursuant to the Act.

 

          (2)    Where the principal and accrued interest is less than $10 000 at the time the annuity becomes payable, the Board shall, unless the recipient requests otherwise, pay the principal and interest to the recipient in a lump sum.

 

24      [repealed]


Survivor benefits

25      The maximum amount payable pursuant to clause 60(1)(b) of the Act for transportation of the body of the worker is:

 

                   (a)      $500, where the place of death is within the Province; or

 

                   (b)     an amount equal to the actual expenses of transportation, where the place of death is outside the Province.

 

26      The amount of the death benefit payable pursuant to subclause 60(1)(c)(i) of the Act is $15 000.

 

27      The amount of the dependent-child benefit payable pursuant to clause 60(1)(d) of the Act is $196 per month.


Supplementary benefits

28      In Sections 29 to 33,

 

                   (a)      “applicant” means a worker, dependent spouse or invalid child who

 

                              (i)      satisfies the criteria in clauses 227(4)(a), (b) and (c) of the Act, and

 

                              (ii)     has made an application pursuant to clause 29(1)(a);

 

                   (b)     “average industrial wage for Nova Scotia” means the wage reported by Statistics Canada as ‘Seasonally Adjusted Estimates of Average Weekly Earnings, for all employees, industrial aggregate, Nova Scotia’, for the 12-month period ending June 30 in the same calendar year as the commencement of the benefit year;

 

                   (c)      “benefit year” means the period beginning on October 1 and ending on September 30, in every year;

 

                   (d)     “CPP/QPP” means the Canada Pension Plan or Quebec Pension Plan; and

 

                   (e)      “supplementary benefit” means the benefit described in subsection 227(4) of the Act.

 

29      (1)    A supplementary benefit shall not be paid unless an applicant

 

                   (a)      applies in writing to the Board; and

 

                   (b)     provides the Board with the information required by the Board from time to time for determining eligibility for the supplementary benefit.

 

          (1A) Despite clause (1)(a), an applicant in receipt of a supplementary benefit on October 1, 2002, shall not be required to apply for a supplementary benefit for the benefit year commencing on October 1, 2002.

 

          (2)    An applicant who is an injured worker is eligible for a supplementary benefit if the worker

 

                   (a)      is receiving a CPP/QPP disability pension for the worker’s compensable injury; or

 

                   (b)     would, in the opinion of the Board, be eligible for a CPP/QPP disability pension for the worker’s compensable injury but for insufficient contributions or lack of contributions to CPP/QPP.

 

          (3)    An applicant is eligible for a supplementary benefit until the month after the month in which the applicant attains the age of sixty-five years.

 

          (4)    A supplementary benefit is payable as of the first day of the month in which application for the supplementary benefit is made, but shall not be payable earlier than October 1, 2002.

 

30      (1)    Despite subsection 29(4), a supplementary benefit is payable as of any date fixed by the Board that is earlier than the date fixed by subsection 29(4), if an applicant satisfies the criteria in clauses 227(4)(a), (b) and (c) of the Act on the date Section 227 of the Act is proclaimed in force.

 

          (2)    A date fixed by the Board pursuant to subsection (1) shall not be earlier than October 1, 2002

 

32      The amount of a supplementary benefit is the amount necessary to increase an applicant’s individual annual personal income to an amount equal to one-half of the average industrial wage for Nova Scotia.

 

33      (1)    An applicant’s individual annual personal income is the applicant’s total income for the calendar year preceding the benefit year minus income received that year in the form of a supplementary benefit from the Board.

 

          (2)    For the purposes of subsection (1), an applicant’s total income for the calendar year is as defined by the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency for purposes of individual income tax returns.


Posting of notices

34      Every employer shall post and keep posted in conspicuous places within easy access of the employer’s workers

 

                   (a)      any card, notice or printed information which the Board directs the employer to post; and

 

                   (b)     a notice informing the employer’s workers of the nearest location at which a copy of the Act can be viewed or obtained.


Assessments

35      (1)    Unless otherwise approved by the Board, an employer shall

 

                   (a)      report the employer’s assessable payroll; and

 

                   (b)     remit assessments in respect of the employer’s assessable payroll

 

to the Board on a periodic basis at the same time as the employer is required to report and remit to the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency for the purposes of income tax, Canada Pension Plan contributions, and employment insurance premiums.

 

          (2)    For the purposes of clause (1)(a), subject to subsection 1A(2), assessment premiums shall be determined by multiplying the employer’s assessable payroll by the applicable assessment rate per hundred dollars of assessable payroll.

 

36      Where an employer fails to register with the Board upon becoming an employer, the employer is liable to a penalty equal to 10% of the employer’s assessment, including the assessment levied for the period of non-registration.

 

37      (1)    Where an employer fails to report to the Board

 

                   (a)       the employer’s assessable payroll; or

 

                   (b)     any information required by the Board pursuant to Section 127 of the Act,

 

the employer is liable to a penalty equal to 10% of the assessment premium for the reporting period.

 

          (2)    For purposes of subsection (1), the penalty may be increased to 20% if the Board determines that the employer

 

                   (a)      has wilfully misrepresented information; or

 

                   (b)     failed to report in accordance with subsection 35(1) more than once in a 12-month period.

 

          (3)    If no assessment premium is remitted by the employer when a remittance is required pursuant to subsection 35(1), the penalty referred to in subsection (1) may be based on the weighted average assessment premium for the employer during the previous 12 months, and months with no assessable payroll shall not be included in the average.

 

38      Where an employer does not pay an assessment within the time required by the Board, the employer is liable for interest on the balance owed calculated at the rate set out in Sections 4301 and 4302 of the Income Tax Regulations (Canada).

 

39      Where an employer under-reports the assessable payroll in a report provided to the Board pursuant to subsection 35(1), the employer is liable for a penalty of

 

                   (a)      10% of the difference between the actual assessment required pursuant to Section 35 and the assessment as originally calculated; and

 

                   (b)     interest calculated at the rate set out in Sections 4301 and 4302 of the Income Tax Regulations (Canada).


Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder


Re-filing claim for post-traumatic stress disorder

40      In subsection 12A(7) of the Act, “re-file” means to re-submit the claim to the Board and have it adjudicated

 

                   (a)      as if for the first time, but based on the application of the presumption set out in subsection 12A(2) of the Act; and

 

                   (b)     without requiring that any evidence presented in support of the claim be

 

                              (i)      new evidence, or

 

                              (ii)     evidence that could not have been presented at the time the claim was originally denied.


Occupations comprising front-line or emergency-response workers

41      (1)    The occupation of sheriff is prescribed as an occupation for the purpose of the definition of “front-line or emergency-response worker” in clause 12A(1)(a) of the Act.

 

          (2)    For purposes of the occupations comprising front-line or emergency-response workers in Section 12A of the Act, the following definitions apply:

 

“continuing-care assistant” means a worker who meets all of the following criteria:

 

                              (i)      they are a graduate of a CCA program approved by the Department of Health and Wellness who has successfully passed the Nova Scotia CCA provincial examination or an equivalent examination recognized by the Department and holds a CCA certificate issued or recognized by the Department as an equivalent of a CCA certificate,

 

                              (ii)     they provide personal care or support to individuals for activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living;

 

“correctional officer” means a worker who is directly involved in the care, health, discipline, safety and custody of an offender in custody in a correctional facility, including a youth worker employed in a correctional facility, but does not include a sheriff, probation officer or parole officer;

 

“emergency-response dispatcher” means a worker whose duties include either of the following:

 

                              (i)      dispatching ambulance services, firefighters or police officers,

 

                              (ii)     receiving emergency calls that initiate the dispatch of ambulance services, firefighters or police officers;

 

“firefighter” means a worker, including officers and technicians, employed by a municipality or the Department of National Defence who is assigned exclusively to fire protection and fire prevention duties notwithstanding that those duties may include the performance of ambulance or rescue services, and includes a member of a volunteer fire department who performs those duties;

 

“nurse” means any of the following workers:

 

                              (i)      a registered nurse as defined in the Registered Nurses Act or other person permitted by law to engage in the practice of nursing as defined in that Act,

 

                              (ii)     a licensed practical nurse as defined in the Licensed Practical Nurses Act or other person permitted by law to engage in the practice of practical nursing as defined in that Act;

 

“paramedic” means a worker who is a paramedic as defined in the Paramedics Act;

 

“police officer” means a worker who is a police officer appointed under the Police Act, other than a special constable, by-law enforcement officer or auxiliary police officer appointed under Sections 88 to 91 of the Police Act, and includes all of the following:

 

                              (i)      a member of an agency as defined in the Police Act, other than a member of the Provincial Police as defined in the Police Act or the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act (Canada),

 

                              (ii)     a chief officer as defined in the Police Act,

 

                              (iii)    a member of the Serious Incident Response Team as defined in the Police Act,

 

                              (iv)    an aboriginal police officer appointed under Section 87 of the Police Act;

 

“sheriff” means a worker appointed as a Chief Sheriff, Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff or Sheriff Officer under the Civil Service Act for purposes of providing sheriff services to the Province, including court facility security, prisoner transportation and civil enforcement.

 

          (3)    In subsection (2),

 

“CCA” means a continuing-care assistant;

 

“correctional facility” means a correctional facility as defined in the Correctional Services Act and, for the purposes of the Government Employees Compensation Act (Canada), includes a penitentiary as defined in the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (Canada).


Prescribed diagnosticians

42      All of the following persons are prescribed diagnosticians for purposes of Section 12A of the Act:

 

                   (a)      a psychiatrist as defined in the Hospitals Act or an individual who has a similar status in another province of Canada;

 

                   (b)     a registered psychologist as defined in the Psychologists Act or an individual who has a similar status in another province of Canada.


Date presumption in Section 12A of Act applies

43      The date on and after which the presumption created by subsection 12A(2) of the Act applies is October 26, 2013.


Application of presumption—period for diagnosis after ceasing employment

44      The period for diagnosing a worker under clause 12A(4)(b) of the Act after the worker ceases to be employed as a front-line or emergency-response worker is unlimited.


Deadline for filing claim for compensation after diagnosis

45      The period for filing a claim for compensation in clause 83(2A)(b) of the Act after a worker is diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder is 5 years.


Definition for clause 10J(2)(a) of Act

46      In clause 10J(2)(a) of the Act,

 

“workplace harassment or bullying” means a single significant occurrence or a course of repeated occurrences of objectionable or unwelcome conduct, comment or action in the workplace that, whether intended or not, degrades, intimidates or threatens, and includes all of the following, but does not include any action taken by an employer or supervisor relating to the management and direction of a worker or the workplace:

 

                              (i)      workplace harassment or bullying that is based on any personal characteristic, including, but not limited to, a characteristic referred to in clauses 5(1)(h) to (v) of the Human Rights Act,

 

                              (ii)     inappropriate sexual conduct, including, but not limited to, sexual solicitation or advances, sexually suggestive remarks or gestures, circulating or sharing inappropriate images or unwanted physical contact.


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Appendix “A”

 

                 Abattoirs, including preparation of meats and manufacturing of meat products

                 Agricultural implements manufacturing

                 Aircraft manufacturing and assembling, not including aerial testing, flying or demonstrating

                 Artificial ice manufacturing

                 Automobile assembly and manufacturing

                 Aviation and aerial transportation

                 Awning and tent manufacturing, sail making and burlap manufacturing

                 Axe manufacturing

                 Bakeries

                 Bakeries and manufacturing of confectionery

                 Barytes mining and milling

                 Beverage manufacturing and breweries

                 Bill posting

                 Blacksmith shops

                 Boat building, including manufacture of blocks and spars for ships

                 Boiler scaling and cleaning

                 Boiler making, machine shops, general metal repairs and marine engineering

                 Bolt, nut and other metal products manufacturing

                 Bookbinding and printing

                 Boot and shoe manufacturing

                 Box shooks manufacturing and box making

                 Brick, tile, pottery, sewer pipe manufacturing

                 Bridge building, operation of bridges

                 Broadcasting stations

                 Building

                 Building construction: carpentry, cellar excavation, concrete, brick or masonry work in connection with building construction, glazing or installation of plate or leaded glass, lathing, installation of mantels or grates, paper-hanging, decorating and renovating, plastering, painting, roofing and building moving

                 Bus transportation service

                 Butter, cheese and other dairy products manufacturing

                 Cable or telephone system

                 Canneries

                 Canning

                 Carbonic acid gas manufacturing and manufacturing of dry ice and bottling and distributing propane gas

                 Carpet and rug manufacturing

                 Catering

                 Cement manufacturing

                 Chimneys or stacks, elevated water tanks, stand-pipes or water towers, steeples

                 Cider manufacturing and syrup and extracts manufacturing and distillery

                 Cleaning products manufacturing

                 Cleaning and dyeing

                 Clothing manufacturing

                 Coal mining

                 Coal yards, including delivery

                 Coffin and casket manufacturing

                 Cold storage plants

                 Cold storage warehouses

                 Condensed milk manufacturing

                 Construction

                 Construction of electric power plants

                 Cooperage stock (assembling) with machinery or handwork

                 Cordage manufacturing

                 Creosoting timber

                 Cutlery manufacturing

                 Cutting and selling of Christmas trees

                 Dairies

                 Decorating

                 Departmental and mail order stores

                 Distributing fuel oil and installation of heating equipment, when in conjunction

                 Dredging

                 Drilling

                 Drug manufacturing

                 Dry docks operation and steel ship building and repairs

                 Dyeing and cleaning

                 Electric wiring of buildings, installation of electrical systems and fixtures

                 Electric light and power plants operation and maintenance, extension of lines and making service connections

                 Electric light or power plant or system

                 Elevators

                 Enamel ware manufacturing

                 Engine manufacturing

                 Engine and machinery installation and repairs

                 Engineering

                 Excavation

                 Express companies

                 Fertilizer manufacturing

                 Fish curing and packing, marine products manufacturing, and canning of lobsters and other shellfish

                 Fishing, sealing, whaling and dredging

                 Foundries

                 Fruit evaporating

                 Fruit packing, feed mixing and combining

                 Furniture manufacturing

                 Garages, including motor vehicle repairs and vulcanizing, auto sales and service, and service stations

                 General stores

                 Geophysical explorations

                 Grist mills

                 Handling of hides

                 Hat and cap manufacturing

                 Heating and sanitary engineering

                 Highway bridge and overpass construction

                 Hotels, restaurants, taverns, lounges, motels and catering

                 Ice harvesting, storing and delivery

                 Jewellery manufacturing and lens manufacturing

                 Junk dealers and junk scrapping

                 Landscaping

                 Laundries

                 Leather goods manufacturing and rubber stamps manufacturing

                 Lithographing and engraving

                 Lumbering: logging, woods operations, river driving, rafting, booming, cutting and peeling pulpwood, sawmills, shingle mills, lath mills, rossing plants, excelsior mills, cooperage stock manufacturing with sawmills, hauling and loading on cars or vessels, as a business or in an industry in this group, and surveying of lines of timberlands in an industry in this group; Christmas tree operations and the construction and repair of dams, camps, sawmills and other buildings

                 Lumber yards, lumber yards (commercial)

                 Machinery and engine installation and repairs

                 Manufacture of shipping containers

                 Manufacture, sale and distribution of artificial ice

                 Manufacturing

                 Manufacturing of warm air furnaces

                 Manufacturing of concrete products

                 Manufacturing television sets, radar and electronic instruments

                 Marine railway and dry dock operations

                 Marine railway operation

                 Mattress manufacturing

                 Milk dealers and ice cream manufacturing, including delivery

                 Mining

                 Mining not otherwise classified

                 Oil refining

                 Operation of any railway, tramway, telegraph, cable or telephone system

                 Operation of hospitals, nursing homes, homes for the aged, welfare homes, municipal homes, convalescent homes and veterinary hospitals

                 Oxygen and dissolved acetylene gas manufacturing

                 Packing houses

                 Paint manufacturing

                 Painting

                 Peat processing

                 Plaster milling

                 Plastics manufacture, manufacture of hardboard

                 Plumbing, including house connections, and heating

                 Printing

                 Prospecting and development of mining properties

                 Prospecting, development and geophysical explorations, boring or sinking artesian wells as a business, diamond drilling

                 Pulp and paper mill

                 Pulp manufacturing

                 Quarrying

                 Rafting of lumber

                 Railroad car manufacturing

                 Railroad construction

                 Railroad operation

                 Refrigeration

                 Renovating

                 Restaurants

                 Retail stores and establishments

                 Riverdriving

                 Road and street making and paving

                 Road construction and repairs

                 Rock wool manufacturing

                 Rolling mills

                 Salt mining

                 Salt processing and refining

                 Sand, clay and gravel digging

                 Scavenging

                 Sealing

                 Service stations

                 Sewer construction

                 Sewers, waterworks, gas works, and any public utility

                 Sheet metal works

                 Shipbuilding

                 Spice mills

                 Spring bed manufacturing

                 Steam packing and insulation manufacturing

                 Steel and iron works

                 Stevedoring

                 Stone cutting, dressing and polishing

                 Stone crushing

                 Street cleaning,

                 Streets and sidewalks maintenance and construction carried on by municipalities

                 Structural steel erection

                 Structural steel - iron and metal fabrication

                 Sugar refining

                 Supermarkets

                 Tanks—erection of steel storage tanks when placed on the ground

                 Tanning

                 Tar manufacturing

                 Taverns and lounges

                 Teaming

                 Telegraph & telephone companies: operation, maintenance, extension of lines, etc.

                 Telegraph & telephone companies: office and exchange employees

                 Textile manufacturing

                 Theatres

                 Tinsmith shop and can manufacturing

                 Transportation

                 Trucking and transportation - automotive

                 Warehouses

                 Warehouses, not otherwise classified

                 Waterworks construction

                 Waterworks operation

                 Whaling

                 Wharf and breakwater construction

                 Wholesale stores and establishments

                 Window cleaning

                 Wooden articles manufacturing not otherwise classified

                 Wooden shipbuilding

                 Woodworking factories and planing and moulding mills, without rotary saw

                 Yeast manufacturing


and any occupation incidental to or immediately connected with any of the industries or operations mentioned above.


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Appendix “B”


Description of diseases

Description of process

anthrax

handling of wool, hair, bristles, hides and skins

carbon monoxide poisoning

any process of work involving exposure to carbon monoxide

lead poisoning or its sequelae

any process involving the use of lead or its preparations or compounds

mercury poisoning or its sequelae

any process involving the use of mercury or its preparations or compounds

phosphorus poisoning or its sequelae

any process involving the use of phosphorus or its preparations or compounds

arsenic poisoning or sequelae

any process involving the use of arsenic or its preparations or compounds

ankylostomiasis

mining

subcutaneous cellulitis of the hand (beat hand)

mining

subcutaneous cellulitis over the patella (miner’s beat knee)

mining

acute bursitis over the elbow (miner’s beat elbow)

mining

frostbite

any outdoor work

dermatitis venenata

any industrial process involving the handling or use of irritants capable of causing or producing dermatitis venenata

epitheliomatous cancer or ulceration of the skin due to tar, pitch, bitumen, mineral oil or paraffin or any compound, product or residue of any of these substances

handling or use of tar, pitch, bitumen, mineral oil or paraffin, or any compound, product or residue of any of these substances

coal miners’ pneumonoconiosis 

coal mining

tenosynovitis (simple)

any process involving constantly repeated vibration or excessive use of muscles of arm, forearm, hand, leg, ankle or foot

any disease or disability due to exposure to X-rays, radium, or other radioactive substances

any process in the refining of radium or other radioactive substances or involving exposure to X-rays


 

 


 

Legislative History
Reference Tables

Workers’ Compensation General Regulations

N.S. Reg. 22/1996

Workers’ Compensation Act

Note:  The information in these tables does not form part of the regulations and is compiled by the Office of the Registrar of Regulations for reference only.

Source Law

The current consolidation of the Workers’ Compensation General Regulations made under the Workers’ Compensation Act includes all of the following regulations:

N.S.
Regulation

In force
date*

How in force

Royal Gazette
Part II Issue

22/1996

Feb 1, 1996

date specified

Feb 16, 1996

153/1996

Jan 1, 1997

date specified

Sep 27, 1996

78/1997

Jan 1, 1997

date specified

Jul 18, 1997

144/1999

Jan 1, 2000

date specified

Dec 31, 1999

17/2000

Feb 2, 2000

date specified

Feb 25, 2000

195/2000

Dec 1, 2000

date specified

Dec 15, 2000

2/2002

Jan 1, 2002

date specified

Jan 11, 2002

146/2002

Oct 1, 2002

date specified

Dec 13, 2002

327/2009

Dec 7, 2009

date specified

Dec 18, 2009

183/2018

Oct 26, 2018

date specified

Oct 26, 2018

167/2020

Oct 30, 2020

date specified

Nov 20, 2020

151/2024

Sep 1, 2024

date specified

Aug 9, 2024

The following regulations are not yet in force and are not included in the current consolidation:

N.S.
Regulation

In force
date*

How in force

Royal Gazette
Part II Issue

 

 

 

 

*See subsection 3(6) of the Regulations Act for rules about in force dates of regulations.

Amendments by Provision

ad. = added
am. = amended

fc. = fee change
ra. = reassigned

rep. = repealed
rs. = repealed and substituted

Provision affected

How affected

1A.....................................................

ad. 144/1999

8........................................................

rep. 17/2000

9(1)(c)..............................................

am. 167/2020

20......................................................

rs. 195/2000

20(c)(v).......................................

rs. 144/1999

20(c)(vii).....................................

rs. 144/1999

20(c)(ix)......................................

ad. 144/1999

21......................................................

am. 167/2020

22(2)-(3)...........................................

am. 153/1996, 2/2002, 327/2009

24......................................................

rep. 151/2024

28(b).................................................

ra. as 28(c) 146/2002

28(b).................................................

ad. 146/2002

28(c).................................................

ra. as 28(d) 146/2002

28(c).................................................

ra. from 28(b) 146/2002; am. 146/2002

28(c)(i)-(ii)..................................

rep. 146/2002

28(d).................................................

ra. as 28(e) 146/2002

28(d).................................................

ra. from 28(c) 146/2002

28(e).................................................

ra. from 28(d) 146/2002

29(1).................................................

am. 146/2002

29(1)(a)-(b).................................

rs. 146/2002

29(1A)..............................................

ad. 146/2002

29(4).................................................

am. 146/2002

30(1).................................................

am. 146/2002

30(1)(a)-(b).................................

rep. 146/2002

30(2).................................................

am. 146/2002

32-33................................................

rs. 146/2002

35......................................................

rs. 144/1999

37-39................................................

rs. 144/1999

39(1)(d)............................................

am. 78/1997

40......................................................

rep. 144/1999

40-45................................................

ad. 183/2018

46......................................................

ad. 151/2024

Appendixes

Appendix “A”..................................

am. 17/2000

Note that changes to headings are not included in the above table.

Editorial Notes and Corrections:

 

Note

Effective
date

1

The Registered Nurses Act referred to in s. 41(2) is repealed by s. 182 of the Nursing Act, S.N.S. 2019, c. 8.  Refer to the Nursing Act, S.N.S. 2019, c. 8 for continued registration and licensing of nurses.

Jun 4, 2019

2

The Licensed Practical Nurses Act referred to in s. 41(2) is repealed by s. 182 of the Nursing Act, S.N.S. 2019, c. 8.  Refer to the Nursing Act, S.N.S. 2019, c. 8 for continued registration and licensing of nurses.

Jun 4, 2019

 

 

 

Repealed and Superseded:

N.S.
Regulation

Title

In force
date

Repealed
date

77/1995

Workers’ Compensation Supplementary Benefit Regulations

Oct 1, 1995

Oct 1, 2002

 

 

 

 

Note:  Only regulations that are specifically repealed and replaced appear in this table.  It may not reflect the entire history of regulations on this subject matter.