570. A worker who is benefiting from an economic stabilization, social stabilization or rehabilitation benefits program of the Commission on 19 August 1985 is entitled to continue to benefit therefrom after that date on the conditions and to the extent provided for in the program.
A worker who suffered an industrial accident before 19 August 1985 or who filed a claim for an occupational disease before that date and who is entitled, on that date, to benefits for temporary total disability owing to the accident or disease is entitled to benefit from an economic stabilization, social stabilization or rehabilitation benefits program of the Commission on the conditions and to the extent provided for in the program.
The programs established pursuant to sections 56 and 56.1 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act (chapter A-3) are and have always been valid notwithstanding any judgment to the contrary.
The Commission may, by regulation, amend the programs in accordance with sections 56.1, 124 and 125 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act.
1985, c. 6, s. 570; 1988, c. 66, s. 1.