30. A worker having contracted a disease not listed in Schedule I out of or in the course of employment and not as a result of an industrial accident or of an injury or disease caused by such an accident is considered to have contracted an occupational disease if he satisfies the Commission that his disease is characteristic of work he has done or is directly related to the risks peculiar to that work.
1985, c. 6, s. 30; 1999, c. 40, s. 4.