A-3.001 - Act respecting industrial accidents and occupational diseases

Section 566 Disposition versions

1999-04-01

566. Where a person who exercises the redistribution option or the smoothing option is the surviving spouse of a worker who died after 31 December 1978, the other persons dependent upon the worker within the meaning of the Workers’ Compensation Act (chapter A-3), for whom the spouse receives benefits under the said Act at the date of the option, are entitled to receive, from that date, in equal shares, monthly benefits determined on the basis of a percentage of the indemnity contemplated in subsection 1 of section 35 of the said Act, revalorized until the date of the option pursuant to section 41 of the said Act.

The percentage is equal to the difference between the percentage established under subsection 2 of section 35 of the Workers’ Compensation Act according to the number of dependent persons at the date of the option and 55%.

The percentage is redetermined each time one of the dependent persons, other than the spouse, ceases to be a dependent person, according to the number of remaining dependent persons, including the spouse.

1985, c. 6, s. 566.