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s 8 Amount of compensation
Subject to this Act the amount of compensation shall be as follows, namely—
(a) where death has resulted from the injury, a lump sum equal to sixty months earnings or eighteen thousand ringgit, whichever is the less:
Provided that if the deceased workman did not leave any dependants, the lump sum shall be the actual amount of the expenses of the funeral of the workman or one thousand ringgit whichever is the less;
(b) where permanent total disablement results from the injury—
(i) in the case of an adult who has completed the eighteenth year of his age, a lump sum equal to sixty months earnings or twenty-three thousand ringgit, whichever is the less;
(ii) in the case of any other adult, a lump sum equal to eighty-four months earnings or twenty-three thousand ringgit, whichever is the less; and
(iii) in the case of a minor, a lump sum equal to one hundred and eight months earnings or twentythree thousand ringgit, whichever is the less:
Provided that where an injury results in permanent total disablement of such a nature that the injured workman must have the constant help of another person, additional compensation shall be paid amounting to one quarter of the amount which is otherwise payable under this paragraph;
(c) where permanent partial disablement results from the injury such percentage of the compensation which would have been payable in the case of permanent total disablement as is proportionate to the permanent loss of earning capacity caused by the injury:
Provided that in the case of an injury specified in the First Schedule the compensation payable shall not be less than such percentage of the compensation which is payable in the case of permanent total disablement as is set opposite to that injury in the said Schedule:
And provided further that if death follows a period of total or partial temporary disablement, the total of all half-monthly payments paid under paragraph (e) below and the lump sum payable in respect of such death shall together not exceed twenty-three thousand ringgit;
(d) where more injuries than one are caused by a single accident and permanent disablement results the amounts of compensation payable in respect of all such injuries shall be aggregated but not so as to exceed in any case the amount which would have been payable in respect of permanent total disablement;
(e) where temporary disablement, whether total or partial, results from the injury, a half-monthly payment payable on the sixteenth day from the date of the disablement, and thereafter half-monthly during the disablement or during a period of five years, whichever period is shorter, of one hundred and sixty-five ringgit or an amount equal to one-third of his monthly earnings, whichever is the less:
Provided that—
(i) where permanent disablement follows a period not exceeding twelve months of total or partial temporary disablement there shall not be deducted from the lump sum payable in respect of such permanent disablement any half-monthly payments or allowance to which the injured workman is entitled and which he has received from his employer by way of compensation;
(ii) where permanent disablement follows a period exceeding twelve months of total or partial temporary disablement there shall be deducted from the lump sum payable in respect of such permanent disablement any half-monthly payments or allowance to which the injured workman is entitled and which he has received from his employer by way of compensation in respect of any period in excess of twelve months, subject to a maximum deduction equivalent to the said lump sum;
(iii) where resident treatment in a hospital or outpatient medical treatment is necessary as a result of the accident, abstention from work for such treatment shall be regarded as total temporary disablement for the purposes of payment of compensation:
And provided further that no half-monthly payment shall in any case exceed the amount, if any, by which half the amount of the monthly earnings of the workman before the accident exceed shalf the monthly amount which he is earning or is in the opinion of the Commissioner able to earn in some suitable employment or business after the accident:
And provided further that if the disablement ceases before the date on which any half-monthly payment falls due, there shall be payable in respect of that half-month an amount proportionate to the duration of the disablement during that half-month.
Malay text (authoritative)
Tertakluk kepada Akta ini amaun pampasan adalah seperti berikut, iaitu-
(a) jika kematian berlaku akibat daripada kecederaan, wang pukal yang sama banyaknya dengan pendapatan tenaga empat puluh lima bulan atau empat belas ribu empat ratus ringgit, mengikut mana-mana yang kurang: Dengan syarat bahawa jıka pekerja yang telah mati tidak meninggalkan mana-mana orang tanggungan, wang pukal itu adalah amaun sebenar perbelanjaan pengkebumian pekerja itu atau lima ratus ringgit mengikut mana-mana yang kurang;
(b) jika takdaya sepenuh yang kekal berlaku akibat daripada kecederaan-
(i) dalam hal orang dewasa yang telah Benal yan belan abanyakuya a mang pendapatan tenaga enam puluh bulan atau sembilan belas ribu dua ratus ringgit,mengikutmana-mana yang kurang;
(i) dalam hal mana-mana orang dewasa lain, wang pukal yang sama banyaknya dengan pendapatan tenaga lapan puluh
[Bah. II, S.8] empat bulan atau sembilan belas ribu dua ratus ringgit, mengikut mana-mana yang kurang; dan
(iii) dalam hal orang belum dewasa, wang pukal yang sama banyaknya dengan Perad paseeniga seas riauia atas Kuraiy, mengiku manamana yang Dengan syarat bahawa pertolongan berterusan orang lain, pampasan tambahan hendaklah diait ar berymiah sapta pera keat dibayar di bawah perenggan ini;
(c) jika takdaya separa yang kekal berlaku akibat [Akta Pin. daripada pampasan yang akan kena dibayar dalam hal takdaya sepenuh yang kekal yang berkadaran dengan kehilangan kekal upaya mencari nafkah yang disebabkan oleh kecederaan itu: Dengan syarat bahawa dalam hal sesuatu kecederaan yang dinyatakan dalam Jadual Pertama dinyatakan bertentangan dengan kecederaan dalam Jadual tersebut; Jan dengan syarat selanjutnya bahawa Jıka [Ditamba kematian menyusuli suatu tempoh takdaya Akta 25/60. ang kena dibavar berkenaan dengan kematia belas ribu dua ratus ringgit;
[Bah. II, S. 8] [Ord. Pin. 4386; Akia Akta Pir 25/60.
(d) jika lebih daripada satu kecederaan yang kekal berlaku amaun-amaun pampasan yang kena dibayar berkenaan dengan segala kecederaan itu hendaklah dirangkumkan tetapi tidak sehingga melebihi dalam manamana hal amaun yang akan kena dibayaı berkenaan dengan takdaya sepenuh yang kekal;
(e) jika takdaya yang sementara, sama ada sepenuh atau separa, berlaku akibat daripada kenedibagar pada har yan keham bels dari tarikh takdaya itu, dan selepas itu setiap setengah bulan sepanjang tempoh takdaya itu atau sepanjang tempoh lima tahun, mengikut nana-mana yang lebıh pendek, sebanyak sat atus tiga puluh lima ringgit atau suatu amau yang sama banyaknya dengan satu pertıga pendapatan tenaga bulanannya, mengikut mana-mana yang kurang: Dengan syarat bahawa-
(i) jika takdaya yang kekal menyusuli suatu empoh tıdak melebihi dua belas bul akdaya sepenuh atau separa yar sementara maka adalah tidak boleh dipotong daripada wang pukal yang kena dibayar berkenaan dengan takdaya yang kekal itu apa-apa bayaran setengah bulan atau elaun yang pekerja tercedera itu berhak dan yang telah diterimanya daripada majikannya sebagai bayaran pampasan;
(i) jika takdaya yang kekal menyusuli suatu takdaya sepenuh atau separa yang sementara maka hendaklah dipotong dari pekerja tercedera itu berhak dan yang
[Bah. II, S. 8-)] telah diterimanya daripada majikannya sebagai bayaran pampasan berkenaan mana-mana tempoh lebih daripada dua belas bulan, tertakluk kepada sesuatu potongan maksimum yang sama banyaknya dengan wang pukal tersebut;
(iii) jika rawatan pemastautin dalam sesuatu (Diambah hospital atau rawatan perubatan pesakit Akıa 25/60.] luar adalah perlu akibat dari kemalangan, penahanan diri dari keria kerana rawatan itu hendaklah dianggap sebagai takdaya sepenuh yang sementara bagi maksudmaksud bayaran pampasan: Dan dengan syarat selanjutnya bahawa tiada bayaran [Ord. Pin. setengah bulan hendaklah dalam apa-apa hal melebihi 3156] amaun, jika ada, di mana separuh dari amaun pendapatan tenaga bulanan pekerja itu sebelum ‹emalangan itu melebihı separuh daripada amaur ulanan yang sedang diperolehinya atau yang pada pendapat Pesuruhjaya mampu diperolehinya dalam sesuatu penggajian atau perniagaan yang sesuai selepas kemalangan itu: Dan dengan syarat selanjutnya bahawa jika takdaya itu terhenti sebelum tarikh pada mana mana-mana bayaran setengah bulan kena dibayar, maka hendaklah kena dibayar berkenaan dengan setengah bulan itu suatu amaun yang berkadaran dengan tempoh takdaya
Text as at 1 January 2006 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.
Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).
