Title BEFORE re-enacted by BC Reg 279/2019, effective April 6, 2020.
Review of Old Permanent Disability Awards Regulation
Section 2 BEFORE re-enacted by BC Reg 279/2019, effective April 6, 2020.
Reconsidering benefits
2 Section 24 [reconsidering benefits] of the Act applies to the following claims:
(a) the worker is still suffering from a compensable disability sustained more than 10 years before the worker's application under section 24 (2) of the Act, and a permanent disability award was made by the Board based on a percentage of total disability of 12% or greater for that compensable disability;
(b) the worker is still suffering from a compensable disability sustained more than 10 years before the worker's application under section 24 (2) of the Act, and a permanent disability award was made by the Board for an injury involving the spinal column;
(c) the worker is still suffering from a compensable disability sustained more than 10 years before the worker's application under section 24 (2) of the Act, and a permanent disability award was made by the Board on or after October 1, 1977 for an injury to a part of the body other than the spinal column;
(i) is still suffering from one compensable disability with a percentage of total disability of 5% or greater sustained more than 10 years before the worker's application under section 24 (2) of the Act, and
(ii) is also still suffering from one or more compensable disabilities sustained at any time before the worker's application under section 24 (2) of the Act, which, when combined with the compensable disability referred to in subparagraph (i), brings the worker's total permanent disability award made by the Board to a percentage of total disability of 12% or greater for the combined compensable disabilities.