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GHA-1987-L-3823
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Title_of_text
Workmen's Compensation Act (No. 187 of 1987)
Main Region
First Region
Country(ies)
Ghana
Subjects (Classification)
Employment accident and occupational disease benefit
Adopted on (Date of text)
1987-08-12
Scope of text
National
Type of legislation (Type of text)
Law, Act
Second Region
Abstract/Citation
This Act recasts the law in relation to compensation awarded to workers for personal injuries arising out of and in the course of their employment. It governs, inter alia, the employer's liability in such cases, the distribution of compensation in the event of the worker's death (including a related schedule), degrees of partial incapacity set forth in a schedule, determination of claims, remedies against the employer and third parties, protection of compensation against attachment or assignment, payment of medical expenses and provision of medical aid, and occupational diseases (with 13 such diseases listed in an attached schedule). The new enactment grew out of a study undertaken by the Tripartite National Advisory Committee on Labour. It repeals the Workmen's Compensation Act 1963 (No. 174) and the 1966, 1968 and 1969 amendments thereto. Statutory Instruments made under those Acts remain in force until amended, varied or revoked in accordance with the provisions of the new law.
Implementing Text region
Implementing text(s)
1988-09-28 (GHA-1988-M-7105)
Workmen's Compensation (Calculation of Compensation) Instrument (No. 1371 of 1988)
Implementing text(s)
1988-09-28 (GHA-1988-M-7105)
Workmen's Compensation (Calculation of Compensation) Instrument (No. 1371 of 1988)
Implementing text(s)
1994-10-14 (GHA-1994-M-38707)
Workmen's Compensation (Calculation of Compensation) Instrument (No. 1594 of 1994)
Implementing text(s)
1994-10-14 (GHA-1994-M-38707)
Workmen's Compensation (Calculation of Compensation) Instrument (No. 1594 of 1994)
Electronic region
Electronic source title
Act on-line
Author
Ghana Laws
Publisher
Ghana Legal
URL
http://ghanalegal.com/?id=3&law=569&t=ghana-laws
File
GHA3823.pdf (PDF of Law in English)
Serial region
Serial title
Official Gazette
Date
1987-08-21
Number
No. 34
Page range
27 p.