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Office Consolidation
Revised Statutes of Alberta 2000
Chapter B-4

Current as of May 24, 2006

BLIND WORKERS COMPENSATION
ACT

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BLIND WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT
Chapter B-4
Table of Contents
1 Definitions
2 Payment by Treasurer
3 Previous awards
4 Assessment on employer
5 Work and placement of blind worker
6 Access to workplace
7 Certificates
HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the
Legislative Assembly of Alberta, enacts as follows:
Definitions
1 In this Act,
(a) blind worker means a worker as defined in the Workers
Compensation Act, and possessing a central visual acuity
of the workers better eye reading 6-60 or 20-200 or less,
either with or without glasses;
(b) Board means The Workers Compensation Board;
(c) employer means an employer as defined in the Workers
Compensation Act who employs a blind worker;
(d) full cost of compensation includes
(i) compensation, burial expenses, the cost of furnishing
medical aid and all other amounts payable under or
by virtue of the Workers Compensation Act, by
reason of an accident to a blind worker for which the
worker is entitled to compensation under that Act,
and
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(ii) the capitalized sum or present value of the sum
required as determined by the Board to provide for
future payments of compensation to the worker or
the workers dependants;
(e) Institute means the Canadian National Institute for the
Blind;
(f) Minister means the Minister determined under section
16 of the Government Organization Act as the Minister
responsible for this Act.
RSA 2000 cB-4 s1;2006 c23 s15
Payment by Treasurer
2(1) When the full cost of compensation exceeds $50, the Minister
in the case of an industry to which the Workers Compensation Act
applies
(a) shall, when the employer is not individually liable to pay
the compensation, pay the excess of the full cost of
compensation over $50 to the Board by way of
reimbursement to the Accident Fund as defined in the
Workers Compensation Act, and
(b) shall, when the employer is individually liable to pay
compensation, pay the excess of the full cost of
compensation over $50 to the employer.
(2) The excess of the full cost of compensation required to be paid
under subsection (1) shall be paid out of the General Revenue Fund
on receiving from the Board a certificate of the full cost of
compensation.
(3) The certificate of the full cost of compensation may be
accepted by the Minister without further proof.
RSA 2000 cB-4 s2;2006 c23 s15
Previous awards
3 In making an award under the Workers Compensation Act to a
blind worker for injury by accident under the Workers
Compensation Act, the Board may have regard to previous awards
made to the worker for injury under that Act.
RSA 1980 cB-7 s3
Assessment on employer
4 The assessment on the wages of a blind worker to be levied by
the Board on an employer may be fixed by the Board at an amount
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that the Board considers fair, having regard to the provisions of the
Workers Compensation Act.
RSA 1980 cB-7 s4
Work and placement of blind worker
5(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Institute has exclusive
jurisdiction over the nature of the work a blind worker is required
to do, and in the proper placement of the blind worker.
(2) On the recommendation of the Board, the Lieutenant Governor
in Council may designate another organization or institution to
exercise the powers and perform the duties assigned to the Institute
under this Act and, on such designation, this Act shall be read as
though the name of the other organization or institution were
substituted for that of the Institute.
RSA 1980 cB-7 s5
Access to workplace
6 Officers of the Institute may, with the knowledge and consent of
the superintendent, foreman or person in charge, enter at all
reasonable times the place of employment of a blind worker.
RSA 1980 cB-7 s6
Certificates
7 The Institute shall provide the Board, on request, with all
certificates or other material required by the Board in the fulfilment
of its duties.
RSA 1980 cB-7 s7