Presumptive Disability Law in Nunavut
CODE PART:
CONSOLIDATION OF WORKERS’ COMPENSATION ACT
DESCRIPTION:
Definitions
14.1.
- In this section, “firefighter” means a worker who
- is engaged in fighting fires as a full-time, part-time or volunteer member of a fire department, and
- does not exclusively fight forest fires; (pompier)”listed disease” means any of the following diseases:
- cardiac arrest within 24 hours after attendance at an emergency response,
- multiple myeloma,
- primary leukemia,
- primary non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma,
- primary site brain cancer,
- primary site colo-rectal cancer,
- primary site lung cancer,
- primary site prostate cancer,
- primary site skin cancer,
- primary site testicular cancer.
- primary site bladder cancer
- primary site breast cancer
- primary site esophageal cancer
- primary site kidney cancer
- primary site ureter cancer (maladie inscrite)
- Presumption for firefighters: Despite section 14 and subject to subsection (3), a listed disease is presumed
to have arisen out of a worker’s employment and to have occurred during the course of
that employment if- the worker is disabled by the listed disease; and
- the worker is or has been a firefighter for the minimum period prescribed in the regulations.
- Smokers: Where the listed disease is primary site lung cancer, the presumption referred
to in subsection (2) does not apply unless the worker has been a non-smoker before the
date of the disability for the minimum period prescribed in the regulations.
S.Nu 2010,c.20,s.3.