19.6. For the application of the Workmen’s Compensation Act (chapter A-3) the Government is deemed to be the employer of a person detained in a house of detention who carries out work under a programme of remunerated activities, unless another person is the employer of the detained person, at the time of the accident.
The compensation to which a detained person is entitled shall be computed on the basis of his average weekly earnings established by the Commission de la santé et de la sécurité du travail, taking into account the income that the detained person would have earned at the time of the accident if, at the time of such accident, he had been carrying on the employment he was carrying on before his imprisonment; however, if the commission cannot so establish the average weekly earnings, it shall determine such average according to the method it considers best suited to the circumstances.
Sections 19.2, 19.3 and 19.4 apply to the compensation to which a detained person is entitled.
1978, c. 21, s. 1; 1978, c. 57, s. 92; 1979, c. 63, s. 329.