The Social Security (Contributions and Industrial Injuries) (Canada) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998

PART IIIBENEFITS UNDER THE LEGISLATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Article 9Benefits for Industrial Accidents and Industrial Diseases

Where a person is employed in Canada and the legislation of the United Kingdom applies to him or her in accordance with any of the provisions of Articles 5 to 7, he or she shall be treated under that legislation for the purposes of any claim to benefit in respect of an industrial accident occurring or an industrial disease contracted during that employment, as if the accident had occurred, or the disease had been contracted, in the United Kingdom. Any benefit which would be payable in respect of that claim if the person were in the United Kingdom shall be payable from the date of his or her return to the United Kingdom.

Article 10Submission of Claim or Appeal

Any claim or appeal which should, for the purposes of Article 9, have been submitted within a prescribed period to the competent authority of the United Kingdom, shall be treated as if it had been submitted to that competent authority if it is submitted within the same period to the competent authority of Canada.