A-3 - Workers’ Compensation Act

Section 56.1 Disposition versions

2007-06-08

56.1. In the exercise of the functions incumbent on it in matters of rehabilitation, the Commission may, in particular:

(a)  organize and provide rehabilitation services;

(b)  develop, support and promote the activities of professionals in the field of health, of health establishments, of departments and of any other organization dealing with rehabilitation and cooperate with them;

(c)  assess the services available for rehabilitation and their efficiency;

(d)  cause research to be carried out on new rehabilitation methods;

(e)  see to the effectiveness of the rehabilitative measures and bring about the appropriate corrections;

(f)  distribute any information on rehabilitation;

(g)  facilitate the access of a worker injured in an accident to consultation services in the field of rehabilitation;

(h)  ensure that the worker suffering from a disability following an accident or an occupational disease has access to consultation services, particularly in the fields of vocational guidance, psychology, social service and workforce, to favour his reintegration into the functions he held before his accident;

(i)  in the case where reintegration into the functions he held before his accident is impossible, provide for his re-education or training and furnish him with any form of assistance to enable him to have work adapted to his residual capacity;

(j)  ensure the granting of financial assistance for the worker suffering from a disability resulting from an accident or an occupational disease in the case where it deems it useful or necessary for his reintegration into work, during a period of training, education or apprenticeship or in other cases it determines by regulation; or

(k)  in the case of a permanent disability compelling the worker to stay in an establishment within the meaning of the Act respecting health services and social services (chapter S-5), favour the adaptation of his place of residence to the needs of that worker if such an adaptation may enable him to leave the establishment.

1978, c. 57, s. 31; 2007, c. 3, s. 72.

1979-01-01

56.1. In the exercise of the functions incumbent on it in matters of rehabilitation, the Commission may, in particular:

(a)  organize and provide rehabilitation services;

(b)  develop, support and promote the activities of professionals in the field of health, of health establishments, of departments and of any other organization dealing with rehabilitation and cooperate with them;

(c)  assess the services available for rehabilitation and their efficiency;

(d)  cause research to be carried out on new rehabilitation methods;

(e)  see to the effectiveness of the rehabilitative measures and bring about the appropriate corrections;

(f)  distribute any information on rehabilitation;

(g)  facilitate the access of a worker injured in an accident to consultation services in the field of rehabilitation;

(h)  ensure that the worker suffering from a disability following an accident or an occupational disease has access to consultation services, particularly in the fields of vocational guidance, psychology, social service and manpower, to favour his reintegration into the functions he held before his accident;

(i)  in the case where reintegration into the functions he held before his accident is impossible, provide for his re-education or training and furnish him with any form of assistance to enable him to have work adapted to his residual capacity;

(j)  ensure the granting of financial assistance for the worker suffering from a disability resulting from an accident or an occupational disease in the case where it deems it useful or necessary for his reintegration into work, during a period of training, education or apprenticeship or in other cases it determines by regulation; or

(k)  in the case of a permanent disability compelling the worker to stay in an establishment within the meaning of the Act respecting health services and social services (chapter S-5), favour the adaptation of his place of residence to the needs of that worker if such an adaptation may enable him to leave the establishment.

1978, c. 57, s. 31.