the term “legislation” includes any social security rules as well as laws and regulations;
Verdrag betreffende de prestaties bij arbeidsongevallen en beroepsziekten
Verdrag betreffende de prestaties bij arbeidsongevallen en beroepsziekten
Opschrift
Convention concerning benefits in the case of employment injury
Preambule
The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,
Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its Forty-eighth Session on 17 June 1964, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to benefits in the case of industrial accidents and occupational diseases, which is the fifth item on the agenda of the session, and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international Convention,
adopts this eighth day of July of the year one thousand nine hundred and sixty-four the following Convention, which may be cited as the Employment Injury Benefits Convention, 1964:
Article 1
In this Convention
- (a)
- (b)
the term “prescribed” means determined by or in virtue of national legislation;
- (c)
the term “industrial undertaking” includes all undertakings in the following branches of economic activity: mining and quarrying; manufacturing; construction; electricity, gas, water and sanitary services; and transport, storage and communication;
- (d)
the term “dependent” refers to a state of dependency which is presumed to exist in prescribed cases;
- (e)
the term “dependent child” covers
- (i)
a child under school-leaving age or under 15 years of age, whichever is the higher, and
- (ii)
a child under a prescribed age higher than that specified in subclause (i) and who is an apprentice or student or has a chronic illness or infirmity disabling him for any gainful activity, on conditions laid down by national legislation: Provided that this requirement shall be deemed to be met where national legislation defines the term so as to cover any child under an age appreciably higher than that specified in subclause (i).
- (i)