Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 Act 4/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 ACT 4

Incorporating all amendments up to 7 May 2013

ACT 4 
EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 

Part I PRELIMINARY

SECTION

1.Short title, extent, commencement and application

2.Definitions

Part II INSURABILITY AND CONTRIBUTIONS

SECTION

3.Applicability

4.Registration of industries

5.All employees to be insured

6.Contributions

7.Principal employer to pay contributions in the first instance

8.Recovery of contribution from immediate employer

9.General provisions as to payment of contributions

9A.Contributions where industry or employee is not insured or registered

9B.Validation of contribution collected

10.Method of payment of contribution

11.Employers to furnish returns and maintain registers in certain cases

12.Inspectors, their functions and duties

12A.Powers of examination and search

12B.Obstruction to exercise of powers by an Inspector

12C.Power to examine persons

13.Determination of contributions in certain cases

13A.Power of Director General to ask for information and application for search warrant

14.Recovery of contributions

14A.Interest on contribution in arrears

Part III BENEFITS

SECTION

15.Benefits

16.When person considered as suffering from invalidity

17.When insured person eligible for invalidity pension

17A.Qualifying conditions for survivors' pension

18.Deleted by Act A814

19.Payment of invalidity pension

20.Invalidity pension

20A.Survivors' pension

20B.Deleted by Act A1232

21.Invalidity grant

22.Disablement benefit

23.Presumption as to accident arising in the course of employment

24.Accidents while travelling

25.Accidents happening while meeting emergency

26.Dependants' benefit

27.Deleted by Act A1232

28.Occupational diseases

29.Funeral benefit

30. Constant-attendance allowance

31.Liability of employer and his servant

32.Determination of question of invalidity or disablement

32A.Determination of occupational diseases

33.References to medical boards and appeals to appellate medical board

33A.Insured person dies before medical board examination

34.Review of decisions by medical board or appellate medical board

35.Review of invalidity pension

36.Review of dependants' benefit

37.Medical benefit

38.Scale of medical benefit

39.Establishment and maintenance of hospitals, etc.

40.Organization's power to co-operate with existing institutions or promote measures for health, welfare, etc., of insured persons

41.Benefit not assignable or attachable

42.Deleted by Act A981

43.Persons not to commute cash benefits

44.Persons not entitled to receive benefits in certain cases

45.Claimant of disablement benefit or invalidity pension to observe conditions

46.Recipients of disablement benefit to observe conditions

47.Deleted by Act A450

48.Organization's right where a principal employer fails or neglects to pay any contribution

49.Suspension of invalidity pension

50.Repayment of benefit improperly received

51.Payment of amount of benefit outstanding at the time of the death of the insured person

52.Employer not to reduce wages, etc.

53.Employer not to dismiss or punish employee during period of temporary disablement

54.Claim for benefits

55.Reporting of change in condition, etc.

56.Discretion to compute the qualifying period and the rate of monthly invalidity pension

57.Facilities for physical or vocational rehabilitation

57A.Education benefit

57B.Organization to be responsible for the recovery and collection of repayments of educational loans

57C.Appointment of collection agents

Part IV ADMINISTRATION, FINANCE AND AUDIT

SECTION

58.Administration of the Social Security Scheme

59.Chief Executive Officer

59A.The Social Security Organization

59B.Establishment of the Board

59C.Minister shall appoint any person to act as Chairman

59D.Sixth Schedule to apply to Board

59E.Cessation of membership of Board

59F.Disqualification

59G.Application of the Public Authorities Protection Act 1948

59H.Public servants and public officers

59I.Board to give effect to Minister's directions

59J.Delegation of power

59K.Administrative control of officers and servants by Director General

59L.Appointment of officers and servants

59M.Setting up divisions, regional offices, etc.

59N.Power to dispose of staff questions

59O.Power to make staff rules

59P.Committees

59Q.Disciplinary Committee

59R.Discipline of officers

59S.Establishment of Disciplinary Appeal Board

59T.Power to make disciplinary rules

59U.Imposition of surcharge

59V.Establishment of Promotion Board

59W.Establishment of Promotion Appeal Board

60-63.Deleted by Act A675

64.Fees and allowances

65-67.Deleted by Act A675

68.Social Security Fund

69.Administration of the Fund

70.Acceptance of grants, donations, etc.

71.Purposes for which the Fund may be expended

72.Expenditure on administration

72A.Withdrawal from Fund for loans

73.Administrative expenditure Government's responsibility

74.Holding of property, etc.

75.Investment of funds

75A.Investment Panel

75B.Deleted by Act A981

76.Raising of loans

77.Budget estimates

78.Accounts

79.Audit

80.Annual Report

81.Annual report and audited accounts

82.Valuation of assets and liabilities

Part V ADJUDICATION OF DISPUTE AND CLAIMS

SECTION

83.Constitution of Social Security Appellate Board

84.Matters to be decided by the Board

85.Institution of proceedings, etc.

86.Commencement of proceedings

87.Powers of Social Security Appellate Board

88.Appearance by legal practitioners, etc.

89.Benefit not admissible unless claimed in time

90.Reference to High Court

91.Appeal

92.Stay of payment pending appeal

Part VI PENALTIES

SECTION

93.Punishment for false information

94.Punishment for failure to pay contributions, etc.

94A.Court's order in respect of contributions due and payable to the Organization

94B.Trial for more than one offence

94C.Copy of entry to be prima facie evidence

95.Prosecution

95A.Compounding of offences

Part VII MISCELLANEOUS

SECTION

96.Insured person not entitled to more than one benefit

96A.Dependant not entitled to both survivor's pension and dependants' benefit for the same period

97.Exemption of industry or class of industries

98.Exemption of persons or class of persons

99.Organization to make representation

100.Exemption of industries belonging to Government or local authority

101.Exemption from one or more provisions of the Act

102.Contributions, etc., due to Organization to have priority over other debts

103.Exercise of powers and functions of the Organization

103A.Disposal of documents after more than three years

104.Deleted by Act 478

105.Power of the Minister to make regulations

106.Duty of Board to review benefits

106A.Rates of benefit

107.Addition of benefits

108.Power to remove difficulties

108A.Joint and several liability of directors

109.Recovery of contribution, etc.

110.Powers of Director General

111.Organization to deal with authorized person

112.Benefit for two or more successive accidents

112A.Electronic submission of documents

First Schedule

Second Schedule

Third Schedule

Fourth Schedule

Fifth Schedule

Sixth Schedule

Seventh Schedule

Eighth Schedule

Ninth Schedule

Tenth Schedule

Appendix

An Act to provide social security in certain contingencies and to make provision for certain other matters in relation to it.

[See Appendix]

BE IT ENACTED by the Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong with the advice and consent of the Dewan Negara and Dewan Rakyat in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

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Part I PRELIMINARY

1. Short title, extent, commencement and application

(1) This Act may be cited as the Employees' Social Security Act 1969.

(2) This Act shall apply throughout Malaysia.

(3) This Act shall come into force on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and for different States or for different parts of it.

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2. Definitions

In this Act unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context--

(1) (Deleted by Act A675);

(1A) "Board", except in Part V, means the Social Security Organization Board established under section 59 B;

(1B) "child" means a child of the deceased insured person--

(a) who is a child under twenty-one years of age and includes--

(i) a posthumous child, a dependent stepchild and an illegitimate child of the insured person; and

(ii) a child adopted by the insured person under any written law relating to adoption or under any custom or usage, on satisfactory proof of such adoption; and

(b) who is a child of any age and is mentally retarded or physically incapacitated and is incapable of supporting himself. 

(2) "contribution" means the sum of money payable to the Organization by the principal employer in respect of an insured employee and includes any amount payable by or on behalf of the employee in accordance with this Act;

(3) "dependant" means any of the following relatives of a deceased insured person, namely:

(a) a widow or widower or a child; and

(b) if there is no widow or widower or child--

(i) a daughter, if married and a minor, or if widowed and a minor;

(ii) an unmarried minor brother or sister or a widowed minor sister;

(iii) a widowed daughter-in-law;

(iv) a minor child of a pre-deceased son;

(v) a minor child of a pre-deceased daughter where no father of the child is alive;

(vi) a parent; or

(vii) a grandparent if no parent of the insured person is alive; and

(c) (Deleted by Act A814), 

Provided that the Minister may give such direction as appears to him to be necessary for the removal of hardship to any other relative of a deceased insured person including an invalid widower;

(4) "duly appointed" means appointed in accordance with this Act or with the rules or regulations made;

(5) Subject to section 3, "employee" means any person who is employed for wages under a contract of service or apprenticeship with an employer, whether the contract is expressed or implied or is oral or in writing, on or in connection with the work of an industry to which this Act applies and--

(i) who is directly employed by the principal employer on any work of, or incidental or preliminary to or connected with the work of, the industry, whether such work is done by the employee on the premises of the industry or elsewhere;

(ii) who is employed by or through an immediate employer on the premises of the industry or under the supervision of the principal employer or his agent on work which is ordinarily part of the work of the industry or which is preliminary to the work carried on in or incidental to the purpose of the industry; or

(iii) whose services are temporarily lent or let on hire to the principal employer by the person with whom the person whose services are so lent or let on hire has entered into a contract of service; 

(6) "employment injury" means a personal injury to an employee caused by accident or an occupational disease arising out of and in the course of his employment in an industry to which this Act applies;

(6A) "Fund" means the Social Security Fund established under section 68;

(7) (Deleted by Act A590);

(7A) (Deleted by Act A675);

(8) "Government" means the Government of Malaysia;

(9) "immediate employer" in relation to employees employed by or through him, means a person who has undertaken the execution on the premises where the principal employer is carrying on his trade or business, profession, vocation, occupation or calling, or under the supervision of the principal employer or his agent, of the whole or any part of any work which is ordinarily part of the work of the trade or business, profession, vocation, occupation or calling, of the principal employer or is preliminary to the work carried on in, or incidental to the purpose of, any such trade or business, profession, vocation, occupation or calling, and includes a person by whom the services of an employee who has entered into a contract of service with him are temporarily lent or let on hire to the principal employer;

(10) "industry" means any business, trade, undertaking, manufacture or calling of employers, and includes any calling, service, employment, handicraft or industrial occupation or avocation of employees;

(10A) "Inspector" means an Inspector appointed under section 12 and includes the Director General and every Deputy Director General;

(11) "insured person" means a person who is or was an employee in respect of whom contributions are, were or could be payable under this Act, notwithstanding that such industry or employee was not so registered, so long as the industry was one to which this Act applies;

(12) "Minister" means the Minister charged with responsibility for human resources;

(13) "minor" means a person who has not attained twenty-one years of age;

(14) "month" means a month reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar;

(15) The expressions "occupier" and "factory" shall have respectively the meanings assigned to them in the Factories and Machinery Act 1967 [Act 139];

(16) "Organization" means the Social Security Organization;

(17) "permanent partial disablement" means such disablement of a permanent nature, as reduces the earning capacity of an employee in every employment which he was able to undertake at the time of the accident resulting in the disablement:

Provided that every injury specified in Part II of the Second Schedule shall be deemed to result in permanent partial disablement;

(18) "permanent total disablement" means such disablement of a permanent nature, as disables an employee for all work which he was capable of performing at the time of the accident resulting in such disablement:

Provided that permanent total disablement shall be deemed to result from every injury specified in Part I of the Second Schedule or from any combination of injuries specified in Part II of it where the aggregate percentage of the loss of earning capacity, as specified in the said Part II against those injuries, amounts to one hundred per cent or more;

(19) "principal employer" means the owner of an industry or the person with whom an employee has entered into a contract of service or apprenticeship and includes--

(a) a manager, agent or person responsible for the payment of salary or wages to an employee;

(b) the occupier of a factory;

(c) the legal representative of a deceased owner or occupier;

(d) any government in Malaysia, department of any such government, local authority or statutory body and, where an employee is employed with any such government, department, authority or body or with any officer on behalf of any such government, department, authority or body, the officer under whom such employee is working:

Provided that no such officer shall be personally liable under this Act for anything in good faith done or omitted to be done by him as an officer of such employer; 

(20) "regulation" means a regulation made by the Minister;

(21) (Deleted by Act A450);

(22) "Schedule" means a Schedule to this Act;

(23) "temporary disablement" means a condition resulting from an employment injury which requires medical treatment and renders an employee, as a result of such injury, temporarily incapable of doing the work which he was doing prior to or at the time of the injury;

(24) "wages" means all remuneration payable in money by an employer to an employee including any payment in respect of leave, holidays, overtime, and extra work on holidays but does not include--

(a) any contribution payable by the principal employer or the immediate employer to any pension fund or provident fund, or under this Act;

(b) any travelling allowance or the value of any travelling concession;

(c) any sum paid to an employee to defray special expenses incurred as a result of his employment;

(d) any gratuity payable on discharge or retirement;

(e) annual bonus;

(f) any other remuneration as may be prescribed. 

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Part II INSURABILITY AND CONTRIBUTIONS

3. Applicability

(1) This Act shall apply to all industries having one or more employees.

(2) In this section, "employees" include any employee employed by the immediate employer.

(3) This Act shall not apply to persons described in the First Schedule.

(4) The Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, amend the First Schedule.

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4. Registration of industries

Every industry to which this Act applies shall be registered with the Organization within such time and in such manner as may be specified in the regulations.

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5. All employees to be insured

Subject to this Act, all employees in industries to which this Act applies shall be insured in the manner provided by this Act.

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6. Contributions

(1) The contribution payable under this Act in respect of an employee shall comprise contribution payable by the employer (hereinafter referred to as the employer's contribution) and contribution payable by the employee (hereinafter referred to as the employee's contribution) and shall be paid to the Organization.

(2) The contributions shall fall into the following two categories, namely:

(a) the contributions of the first category, being the contributions payable by or on behalf of the employees insured against the contingencies of invalidity and employment injury; and

(b) the contributions of the second category, being the contributions payable by or on behalf of employees insured only against the contingency of employment injury. 

(3) The contributions of the various categories shall be paid at the rates specified in the Third Schedule.

(4) The contributions of the first category shall be shared by the employer and the employee in the ratio specified in Part I of the Third Schedule.

(5) The contributions of the second category shall be paid wholly by the employer.

(6) The Minister, in consultation with the Minister of Finance may, by notification in the Gazette, amend, add to, vary or revise the rates of contributions specified in the Third Schedule.

(7) A month shall be the unit in respect of which all contributions shall be payable under this Act.

(8) The contributions payable in respect of each month shall ordinarily fall due on the last day of the month, and where an employee is employed by an employer for part of a month the contribution in respect of such month shall fall due on the last day of employment by such employer in that month.

(9) Where two or more contributions are paid in respect of the same insured person for the same month, they shall be counted as a single monthly contribution.

(10) In computing the average of assumed wage for the purpose of calculating the rate of pension or benefit payable under this Act, two or more monthly contributions paid in respect of the same insured person for the same month shall be treated as a single monthly contribution corresponding to the aggregate of the different assumed monthly wages to which the different contributions correspond:

Provided that where the aggregate of the different assumed monthly wages to which the different contributions correspond exceed the maximum assumed monthly wage, the assumed monthly wage shall be such maximum monthly wage.

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7. Principal employer to pay contributions in the first instance

(1) The principal employer shall pay in respect of every employee, whether directly employed by him or through an immediate employer, both the employer's contribution and the employee's contribution.

(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other written law but subject to this Act and the regulations, if any, the principal employer shall, in the case of an employee directly employed by him, be entitled to recover from the employee the employee's contribution by deduction from his wages and not otherwise:

Provided that no such deduction shall be made from any wages other than such as relate to the period or part of the period in respect of which the contribution is payable, or in excess of the sum representing the employee's contribution for the period.

(3) Notwithstanding any contract to the contrary, neither the principal employer nor the immediate employer shall be entitled to deduct the employer's contribution from any wages payable to an employee or otherwise to recover it from him.

(4) Any sum deducted by the principal employer from wages under this Act shall be deemed to have been entrusted to him by the employee for the purpose of paying the contribution in respect of which it was deducted.

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8. Recovery of contribution from immediate employer

(1) A principal employer, who has paid contribution in respect of an employee employed by or through an immediate employer, shall be entitled to recover the amount of the contribution so paid (that is to say the employer's contribution as well as the employee's contribution, if any) from the immediate employer, either by deduction from any amount payable to him by the principal employer under any contract, or as a debt payable by the immediate employer.

(2) In the case referred to in subsection (1), the immediate employer shall be entitled to recover the employee's contribution from the employee employed by or through him by deduction from wages and not otherwise, subject to the conditions specified in the proviso of subsection 7(2).

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9. General provisions as to payment of contributions

(1) Contribution (both the employer's contribution and the employee's contribution) shall be payable by the principal employer for each month in respect of the whole or part of which wages are payable to the employee and not otherwise.

(2) (Deleted by Act A675).

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9A. Contributions where industry or employee is not insured or registered

Contributions shall be payable in respect of employees from the month they enter into employment and such contributions are payable even though the industry to which this Act applies or the employees or both have not been insured or registered with the Organization:

Provided that an employer who has paid arrears of contributions in respect of an employee will only be entitled to recover from the wages payable notwithstanding the proviso to subsection7(2) the employee's share of the contributions due within the last preceding six months prior to the date of payment.

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9B. Validation of contribution collected

Any contribution collected by the Organization for an employee who was not registered for purposes of insurance under this Act for any period prior to 1 July 1987 is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully collected.

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10. Method of payment of contribution

Subject to this Act, the Minister may make regulations for any matter relating or incidental to the payment and collection of contributions payable under this Act and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power such regulations may provide for--

(a) the manner and time of payment of contributions;

(b) the payment of contributions either in cash or cheque or any other mode of payment;

(c) the date by which evidence of contributions having been paid is to be received by the Organization;

(d) the entry in an approved manner in or upon books or forms of particulars of contributions paid and benefits distributed in case of the insured persons to whom such books or forms relate; and

(e) the issue, sale, custody, production, inspection and delivery of materials, books or forms or the replacement of materials, books or forms which have been lost, destroyed or defaced. 

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11. Employers to furnish returns and maintain registers in certain cases

(1) Every principal and immediate employer shall submit to the Organization or to such officer of the Organization as it may direct such returns in such form and containing such particulars relating to persons employed by him or to any industry in respect of which he is the principal or immediate employer as may be specified in the regulations made in this behalf.

(2) Where, in respect of any industry, the Organization has reason to believe that a return should have been submitted under subsection(1) but has not been so submitted, the Organization may require any person in charge of the industry to furnish such particulars as it may consider necessary for the purpose of enabling the Organization to decide whether the industry is an industry to which this Act applies.

(3) Every principal and immediate employer shall maintain such registers or records in respect of his industry as may be required by regulations made in this behalf.

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12. Inspectors, their functions and duties

(1) The Minister may appoint such persons as Inspectors, as he thinks fit, for the purposes of this Act.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), an Inspector appointed under subsection (1) shall have all the powers, functions and duties conferred under this Act.

(3) An Inspector shall be subject to the direction and control of the Director General or of such other officer or servant of the Organization as may be authorized by the Director General to act on behalf of the Director General, and of any other Inspector superior to the Inspector in rank, and shall exercise his powers, perform his functions and discharge his duties under this Act in compliance with such directions, instructions, conditions, restrictions or limitations as the Director General, or an officer or servant of the Organization authorized to act on behalf of the Director General or any other Inspector superior to the Inspector in rank, may specify orally or in writing, either generally, or in any particular case or circumstances.

(4) The Director General and Deputy Directors General shall have all the powers of an Inspector.

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12A. Powers of examination and search

Subject to any regulations made under section105, an Inspector may at any reasonable time--

(a) make such examination and inquiry as may be necessary for ascertaining whether this Act or the regulations or rules made thereunder are being or have been complied with;

(b) at any reasonable time enter any premises or place occupied by any principal employer or immediate employer for the purpose of such examination and inquiry;

(c) examine the principal employer or immediate employer or his agent or servant or any person found in such premises or place or any person whom the Inspector has reasonable cause to believe to be or have been an employee;

(d) make copies of or take extracts from any register, books or other documents maintained in such premises or place; and

(e) exercise such other powers as may be necessary for carrying this Act into effect. 

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12B. Obstruction to exercise of powers by an Inspector

(1) No person shall--

(a) refuse any Inspector exercising his power under section 12a access to any premises or place or any part thereof;

(b) assult, obstruct, hinder or delay such Inspector in effecting any entrance which he is entitled to effect;

(c) fail to comply with any lawful demands of an Inspector execution of his powers under section 12a;

(d) refuse to give to an Inspector any information which may reasonably be required of such person;

(e) fail to produce to, or conceal or attempt to conceal from, an Inspector, any property, book or other document including electronic records in relation to which the Inspector has reasonable grounds for suspecting that an offence has been or is being committed under this Act; or

(f) furnish as true to an Inspector, information which he knows or has reason to believe to be false. 

(2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence.

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12C. Power to examine persons

(1) An Inspector making any examination or inquiry under section 12A may examine orally any person whom he believes to be acquainted with the facts and circumstances of the case and for such purpose summon any such person to attend at the time and place specified in such summons.

(2) The person examined under subsection (1) shall be legally bound to answer all questions relating to such case put to him by the examining Inspector, but such person may refuse to answer any question the answer to which would have a tendency to expose him to a criminal charge or penalty or forfeiture.

(3) A person making a statement under this section shall be legally bound to state the truth, whether or not such statement is made wholly or partly in answer to question.

(4) An Inspector examine a person under subsection (1) shall first inform that person of subsections (2) and (3).

(5) A statement made by any person under this section shall, whenever possible, be taken down in writing and signed by the person making it or affixed with his thumb-print, after it has been read to him in the language in which he made it and after he has been given an opportunity to make any corrections he may wish.

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13. Determination of contributions in certain cases

(1) An Inspector may assess any contributions which are due from any principal or immediate employer based on any information available, if the employer--

(a) fails to keep or maintain any statement, particulars, register book or any record pertaining to each employee as required to be kept or maintained by him under this Act; or

(b) fails or refuses to submit any statement, particulars, register book or record pertaining to each employee as required under this Act. 

(2) The assessment made under subsection (1) shall be sufficient proof of the Organization's claim for the recovery of any contributions under section 84 or for the recovery of the amount determined by such assessment as a debt due to the Organization under section14.

(3) Any assessment made under this section shall be served either personally or by registered post.

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13A. Power of Director General to ask for information and application for search warrant

(1) For the purpose of obtaining full information for ascertaining whether any person is liable to pay contributions under this Act, the Director General or any Inspector appointed by the Director General for the purpose may by notice in writing require any person--

(a) to furnish to the Director General or such Inspector within the time specified in the notice any information or particulars as specified in the notice; or

(b) to attend personally before the Director General or such Inspector and to produce for examination all books, records and other documents including electronic records which the Director General or such Inspector deems necessary; or

(c) to furnish the information or particulars in accordance with paragraph (a) and also to attend in accordance with paragraph (b). 

(2) Any person who fails to comply with subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence.

(3) Whenever it appears to any Magistrate, upon written information on oath, and after any enquiry he may think necessary, that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that there are on any particular premises any book, account, record (including electronic record) or other document, the production of which has been required pursuant to subsection (1) and which has not been produced in compliance with that requirement, such Magistrate may issue a warrant authorizing the Director General or any person named therein with or without assistance--

(a) to search the premises and to break open and search any cupboard, drawer, chest, trunk, box, package or other receptacle, whether a fixture or not, in the premises; and

(b) to take possession of, or secure against interference, any book, account, record (including electronic record) or other document that appears to be a book, account, record or other document the production of which was so required. 

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14. Recovery of contributions

Any contribution or interest payable under this Act may be recovered as a debt due to the Organization.

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14A. Interest on contribution in arrears

Where the amount of the monthly contributions or part of any monthly contributions which are payable by any employer under section6 is not paid within such period as may be prescribed by the regulations, the employer shall be liable to pay interest to be credited to the Organization on such amount at such rate as may be prescribed by the regulations in respect of any period during which such amount remains unpaid.

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Part III BENEFITS

15. Benefits

Subject to this Act, the insured persons, their dependants or the persons hereinafter mentioned, as the case may be, shall be entitled to the following benefits, namely:

(a) periodical payments to an insured person in case of invalidity certified by a duly appointed medical board or by an authority specified in this behalf by the regulations (hereinafter referred to as invalidity pension);

(b) periodical payments to an insured person suffering from disablement as a result of an employment injury sustained as an employee under this Act and certified to be eligible to such payments by an authority specified in this behalf by the regulations (hereinafter referred to as disablement benefit);

(c) periodical payments to such dependants of an insured person who dies as a result of an employment injury sustained as an employee under this Act (hereinafter referred to as dependants' benefit);

(d) payments for funeral benefit or expenses, as the case may be, to the person mentioned in section 29 on the death of an insured person as a result of an employment injury sustained as an employee under this Act or while he was in receipt of disablement benefit under this Act, or of an insured person suffering from invalidity while in receipt of invalidity pension under this Act, or of an insured person who has not attained sixty years of age but has completed a full or reduced qualifying period mentioned in subsections 29(3) and (4) (hereinafter referred to as funeral benefit);

(e) periodical payments to an insured person who is in receipt of invalidity pension or disablement benefit if and so long as he is so severely incapacitated or disabled as to constantly require the personal attendance of another person (hereinafter referred to as constant-attendance allowance):

Provided that the existence of the degree of incapacity qualifying an invalid or disabled insured person for constant-attendance allowance shall be verified by a duly appointed medical board or the appellate medical board or any other authority specified in this behalf by the regulations, in such manner as is prescribed by the regulations;

(f) medical treatment for and attendance on insured persons suffering from disablement as a result of an employment injury sustained as an employee under this Act (hereinafter referred to as medical benefit);

(g) periodical payments to dependants of an insured person who dies while in receipt of invalidity pension, or of an insured person who has not attained sixty years of age but has completed a full or reduced qualifying period for survivors' pension mentioned in subsections 17A(2) and (3) (hereinafter referred to as survivors' pension). 

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 Act 4/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 ACT 4,,/16.When person considered as suffering from invalidity

16. When person considered as suffering from invalidity

(1) An insured person shall be considered as suffering from invalidity, if, by reason of a specific morbid condition of permanent nature, he is incapable of engaging in any substantially gainful activity.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)--

(a) a morbid condition shall be deemed to be of permanent nature if it is either incurable or is not likely to be cured;

(b) a person shall be deemed to be incapable of engaging in substantially gainful activity, if in consequence of the specific morbid condition of sickness or infirmity, he is no longer capable of earning, by work corresponding to his strength and physical ability which, in view of his training and former occupation, might reasonably be assigned to him at the place of his employment or at a similar place in the neighbourhood or in the same district, one-third of the customary earnings of a mentally and physically sound person with similar qualifications and training;

(c) in determining whether the claimant is suffering from invalidity, account shall be taken of any permanent improvement in the state of his invalidity which results or is expected to result from such measures of physical or vocational rehabilitation as may be offered to him free of charge by the Organization. 

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 Act 4/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 ACT 4,,/17.When insured person eligible for invalidity pension

17. When insured person eligible for invalidity pension

(1) Subject to this Act, an insured person suffering from invalidity as defined in section 16 shall, unless he has attained ^*sixty years of age, be entitled to receive invalidity pension if he has completed a full or a reduced qualifying period.

(2) A person shall be deemed to have completed full qualifying period under subsection (1) if--

(i) monthly contributions have been paid in respect of him for not less than twenty-four months during the period of forty consecutive months immediately preceding the month in which he has submitted a notice of invalidity in accordance with the regulations; or

(ii) monthly contributions have been paid in respect of him for not less than two-thirds of the number of complete months comprised in the period falling between the date when contributions first become payable by him under this Act and the month immediately preceding the month in which he has submitted a notice of invalidity in accordance with the regulations, provided that the total number of monthly contributions paid during the aforesaid period shall be at least twenty-four. 

(3) A person shall be deemed to have completed a reduced qualifying period under subsection (1) if monthly contributions have been paid in respect of him for not less than one-third of the number of complete months comprised in the period falling between the date when contributions first become payable by him under this Act and the month immediately preceding the month in which he has submitted a notice of invalidity in accordance with the regulations, provided that the total number of monthly contributions paid during the aforesaid period shall be at least twenty-four.

(3A) If the insured person fails to complete a qualifying period under subsection (2) or (3) and the Organization is satisfied that such failure is not due to any fault of the insured person or is due to the ignorance of the insured person, the Organization may consider the qualifying period to have been completed by an insured person if a medical board, established pursuant to section 32, to which the matter is referred by the Organization determines that the insured person's invalidity has commenced earlier than the date the notice of invalidity is received by the Organization in accordance with the regulations.

(3B) Where the Organization has considered the qualifying period to have been completed by an insured person under subsection (3A), the date on which the insured person submits his notice of invalidity shall be deemed to be the date of commencement of his invalidity.

(3C) Notwithstanding subsections (2) and (3), the Organization has the discretion to allow periods of credit to be taken into consideration for the purpose of determining the completion of the qualifying period of an insured person, and the months in the period of credit for which contribution is payable shall be included for the purpose of calculating the total number of months for the purpose of those subsections.

(3D) The term "period of credit" in subsection (3C) means the period during which the insured person receives temporary disablement benefit and the employer does not pay any wages to the insured person.

(4) If after an insured person's notice of invalidity has been rejected on account of his failure to have completed one or other of the qualifying periods, a fresh notice of invalidity is received from him, the date of the fresh notice of invalidity shall be treated, for the purposes of subsections (2) and (3) as the date on which he has submitted a notice of invalidity.

(5) (Deleted by Act A450).

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 Act 4/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 ACT 4,,/17A.Qualifying conditions for survivors' pension

17A. Qualifying conditions for survivors' pension

(1) Subject to this Act, survivors' pension shall be payable on completion of a full or reduced qualifying period.

(2) The deceased insured person shall be deemed to have completed a full qualifying period under subsection (1) if--

(a) monthly contributions have been paid in respect of him for not less than twenty-four months during the period of forty consecutive months preceding the month of his death; or

(b) monthly contributions have been paid in respect of him for not less than two-thirds of the number of complete months comprised in the period falling between the date when contributions first become payable by him under this Act and the date of his death, provided that the total number of monthly contributions paid during the aforesaid period shall be at least twenty-four. 

(3) A deceased insured person shall be deemed to have completed a reduced qualifying period under subsection (1) if monthly contributions have been paid in respect of him for not less than one-third of the number of complete months comprised in the period falling between the date when contributions first become payable by him under this Act and the date of his death, provided that the total number of monthly contributions paid during the aforesaid period shall be at least twenty-four.

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18. Omitted or Deleted Section

(Deleted by Act A814)

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19. Payment of invalidity pension

(1) Invalidity pension shall accrue from the day in which the insured person gives notice of invalidity in accordance with the regulations and shall cease on the day following the day in which invalidity ceases or the day the pensioner dies.

(2) For the purpose of this section, the daily rate of invalidity pension shall be the amount of the monthly rate of invalidity pension paid or payable to the insured person, divided by the number of days in the month in which the pension accrues or the invalidity ceases or the pensioner dies.

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20. Invalidity pension

(1) Subject to section 19, the rate of pension shall be as follows:

(a) for an insured person who has completed the full qualifying period under subsection 17(2), a basic monthly pension equal to fifty per cent of his average monthly wage, increased by 1 per cent of the average monthly wage for every twelve months' contributions paid in excess of the first twenty-four months, in respect of him during the period falling between the date when contributions first become payable by him under this Act and the date on which he submits a notice of invalidity in accordance with the regulations:

Provided that the rate of monthly pension, as so increased, shall not in any case exceed 65 per cent of the average monthly wage;

(b) for an insured person who has completed the reduced qualifying period under subsection 17(3), a basic monthly pension equal to fifty per cent of his average monthly wage. 

(2) (a) The term "average monthly wage", wherever it occurs in this section, refers to the average of assumed monthly wage corresponding to the last twenty-four monthly contributions in respect of the insured person which have been paid immediately before the month in which he submits a notice of invalidity in accordance with the regulations: 

Provided that a minimum average monthly wage shall be three hundred and forty-two ringgit and eighty-six sen subject to such amount as may be prescribed by the Minister from time to time by regulations.

(b) Assumed monthly wage to which a monthly contribution corresponds shall be deemed to be as indicated in the Fourth Schedule.

(c) (Deleted by Act A450). 

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20A. Survivors' pension

(1) If an insured person who is in receipt of invalidity pension, or if an insured person who has not attained ^*sixty years of age but has completed a full or reduced qualifying period as specified under section 17A, dies, survivors' pension at the rates specified in the Eighth Schedule shall be payable--

(a) to the widow or the widower during life, and if there are two or more widows, the widow's share of survivors' pension specified in the Eighth Schedule shall be divided equally between the widows:

Provided that if a widow or widower is entitled to more than one survivors' pension, she or he shall be paid only one pension, being the pension with the higher rate. 

(b) to each child until marriage or until he attains the age of twenty-one years, whichever occurs earlier:

Provided that in the case of a child referred to in paragraph (b) of the definition of "child" in section 2, survivors' pension shall continue to be paid so long as he is incapable of supporting himself:

And provided further that the Organization may continue such pension to a child who is in receipt of education in any institution of higher learning but not beyond the first degree until he completes or ceases to receive such education or until he marries, whichever occurs earlier.

(c) (Deleted by Act A675). 

(2) If an insured person who is in receipt of invalidity pension, or if an insured person who has not attained ^*sixty years of age but has completed a full or reduced qualifying period as specified under section 17A, dies and does not leave a widow, or a widower who is wholly or mainly dependent on the earnings of the insured person at the time of her death, or a child, survivors' pension shall be payable to the widowed mother and other dependants as specified in paragraph (b) of the definition of "dependant" in section 2, at the rates and for the duration specified in the Eighth Schedule.

(3) The survivors' pension shall accrue from the date of the death of the insured person who is in receipt of invalidity pension or the insured person who has not attained ^*sixty years of age but has completed a full or reduced qualifying period as specified under section 17A:

Provided that where disablement benefit was payable to the deceased insured person on the date of death, the accrual date of survivors' pension shall be the date following the date of death.

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20B. Omitted or Deleted Section

(Deleted by Act A1232).

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 Act 4/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 ACT 4,,/21.Invalidity grant

21. Invalidity grant

(1) A person who is certified to be invalid shall, if he fails to complete any of the qualifying conditions specified in section 17, be entitled to an invalidity grant equivalent to the contributions paid in respect of him together with interest thereon at the rate specified in the regulations.

(2) The claimant shall not be entitled to an invalidity grant unless he has paid twelve monthly contributions in the aggregate since contributions first become payable by him under this Act.

(3) Invalidity grant under this section shall ordinarily be payable only when the person has attained sixty year of age or dies before attaining that age.

(4) Notwithstanding subsection (3), invalidity grant under this Act may, at the option of the person concerned, be made at the time when invalidity is verified to exist:

Provided that the contributions so refunded shall be ignored in determining at any time in future his title to or right to pension.

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22. Disablement benefit

Subject to this Act and the regulations, if any--

(a) a person who sustains temporary disablement shall be entitled to periodical payment for the period of such disablement in accordance with the provisions of the Fourth Schedule:

Provided that no temporary disablement benefit shall be payable unless the temporary disablement lasts for a period of at least four days including the day of the accident:

Provided further that for the purposes of this section and whether or not the person who sustains the employment injury is paid wages on the day of the employment injury, the commencement of the calculation of the period of four days shall begin from the day of sustaining the employment injury;

(b) a person who sustains permanent disablement, whether total or partial, shall be entitled to periodical payment for such disablement in accordance with the provisions of the Fourth Schedule:

Provided that where permanent disablement, whether total or partial, has been assessed provisionally for a limited period or finally, the benefit provided under this paragraph shall be payable for that limited period or, as the case may be, for life. 

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23. Presumption as to accident arising in the course of employment

For the purposes of this Act, an accident arising in the course of an insured person's employment shall be presumed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, also to have arisen out of that employment.

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24. Accidents while travelling

(1) An accident happening to an insured person shall be deemed to arise out of and in the course of his employment if the accident happens while the insured person--

(a) is travelling on a route between his place of residence or stay and his place of work;

(b) is travelling on a journey made for any reason which is directly connected to his employment; or

(c) is travelling on a journey between his place of work and the place where he takes his meal during any authorized recess. 

(2) If the accident under subsection (1) occurs during any interruption of, or deviation from, the insured person's journey made for any of the purposes stipulated in the same subsection, the accident shall not be deemed to arise out of and in the course of his employment.

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25. Accidents happening while meeting emergency

An accident happening to an insured person in or about any premises at which he is for the time being employed for the purpose of his employer's trade or business, profession, vocation, occupation or calling, shall be deemed to arise out of and in the course of his employment, if it happens while he is taking steps, on an actual or supposed emergency at those premises, to rescue, succour or protect persons who are, or are thought to be or possibly to be, injured or imperilled, or to avert or minimize damage to property.

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26. Dependants' benefit

(1) If an insured person dies as a result of an employment injury sustained as an employee under this Act (whether or not he was in receipt of any periodical payment for temporary disablement in respect of the injury) dependants' benefit at the rates specified in the Fourth Schedule shall be payable to his dependants as follows:

(a) to the widow or widower during life, and, if there are two or more widows, the widow's share of dependants' benefit specified in the Fourth Schedule shall be divided equally between the widows:

Provided that if a widow or a widower is entitled to more than one dependants' benefits, she or he shall be paid only one benefit, being the benefit with the higher rate.

(b) to each child until marriage or until he attains the age of twenty-one years, whichever occurs earlier:

Provided that in the case of a child referred to in paragraph (b) of the definition of "child" in section 2, dependants' benefit shall continue to be paid so long as he is incapable of supporting himself:

And provided further that the Organization may continue such benefit to any child who is in receipt of education in any institution of higher learning but not beyond the first degree until he completes or ceases to receive such education or until he marries, whichever occurs earlier.

(c) (Deleted by Act A675). 

(2) If an insured person who dies as a result of an employment injury does not leave a widow or child, dependants' benefit shall be payable to the widowed mother and other dependants as specified in paragraph (b) of the definition of "dependant" in section 2 at the rates and for the duration specified in the Fourth Schedule.

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27. Omitted or Deleted Section

(Deleted by Act A1232).

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28. Occupational diseases

(1) If an employee who is employed in any occupation described in the Fifth Schedule contracts any disease or injury shown in the said Schedule to be related to that occupation, or if an employee who has been employed in such occupation contracts such a disease or injury within sixty months after ceasing to be so employed, the contracting of the disease or injury shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to be an employment injury arising out of and in the course of employment:

Provided that the period of sixty months may, at the discretion of the Organization, be further extended upon production of medical and other relevant evidence in support of it.

(2) Where an employee enters into a contract of service or apprenticeship with any principal employer or immediate employer to work in any occupation specified in the Fifth Schedule or is, with his consent, transferred by his principal or immediate employer to such an occupation, he shall, if requested to do so by the employer or the Organization, submit himself for examination by a duly appointed medical practitioner; but such an employee shall not be required to submit himself for examination by a duly appointed medical practitioner otherwise than in accordance with regulations made under this Act nor at shorter intervals than may be prescribed in it.

(3) The Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, amend, substitute, add or delete any disease specified in the Fifth Schedule and any occupation described of it.

(4) Save as provided by subsections (1) and (3), no benefit shall be payable to an employee in respect of any disease unless the disease is directly attributable to a specific injury arising out of and in the course of his employment.

(5) Section 23 shall not apply to the cases to which this section applies.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 Act 4/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 ACT 4,,/29.Funeral benefit

29. Funeral benefit

(1) If an insured person dies as a result of an employment injury or while he is in receipt of disablement benefit under this Act, or if an insured person suffering from invalidity dies while in receipt of invalidity pension, or if an insured person who has not attained sixty years of age but has completed a full or reduced qualifying period as specified in subsection (3) or (4), dies, a funeral benefit of an amount as prescribed by the Minister from time to time by regulations shall be paid to one or more of the following persons:

(a) the widow (if there are two or more widows, the widows share equally the funeral benefit);

(b) the widower;

(c) the eldest surviving son or adopted son;

(d) the eldest surviving daughter or adopted daughter;

(e) the parent (if there are both parents, the parents share equally the funeral benefit). 

(2) Where there are no such persons as mentioned in paragraph (1)(a), (b), (c), (d) or (e), any other person who actually incurs the expenditure of the funeral shall be paid the expenses of the funeral of the deceased insured person or the amount as prescribed by the Minister under subsection (1), whichever is the lesser:

Provided that the claim for such benefit shall be made within three months of the death of the insured person or within such extended period as the Organization or any officer or authority authorized by it in this behalf may allow:

Provided further that, notwithstanding the above conditions, any disagreement over the question of to whom the payment of funeral benefit should be made, the decision of the Director General or that of an officer authorized by him shall be final.

(3) An insured person who has not attained sixty years of age shall be deemed to have completed the full qualifying period under subsection (1) if--

(a) monthly contributions have been paid in respect of him for not less than twenty-four months during the period of forty consecutive months preceding the month in which the insured person dies; or

(b) monthly contributions have been paid in respect of him for not less than two-thirds of the number of complete months comprised in the period falling between the date when contributions first become payable by him under this Act and the date of his death, provided that the total number of monthly contributions paid during the said period shall be at least twenty-four. 

(4) An insured person who has not attained sixty years of age shall be deemed to have completed a reduced qualifying period under subsection (1) if monthly contributions have been paid in respect of him for not less than one-third of the number of complete months comprised in the period falling between the date when contributions first become payable by him under this Act and the date of his death, provided that the total number of monthly contributions paid during the said period shall be at least twenty-four.

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30. Constant-attendance allowance

^*An insured person who is entitled to invalidity pension or permanent total disablement benefit shall also be entitled to constant-attendance allowance at a rate as may be prescribed by the Minister from time to time by regulations, if and so long as he is so severely incapacitated as to constantly require the personal attendance of another person:

Provided that the existence of the degree of incapacity qualifying an insured person for constant-attendance allowance shall be verified by a medical board or Special Medical Board or the appellate medical board or any other authority so authorized by the Minister, in such manner as is prescribed by the regulations.

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31. Liability of employer and his servant

An insured person or his dependants shall not be entitled to receive or recover from the employer of the insured person, or from any other person who is the servant of the employer, any compensation or damages under any other law for the time being in force in respect of an employment injury sustained as an employee under this Act:

Provided that the prohibition in this section shall not apply to any claim arising from motor vehicle accidents where the employer or the servant of the employer is required to be insured against Third Party Risks under Part IV of the Road Transport Act 1987 [Act 333].

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 Act 4/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 ACT 4,,/32.Determination of question of invalidity or disablement

32. Determination of question of invalidity or disablement

Any question--

(a) whether the relevant accident or disease has resulted in the invalidity;

(b) whether the relevant employment injury has resulted in permanent disablement;

(c) whether the extent of loss of earning capacity can be assessed provisionally or finally for the purpose of disablement benefit;

(d) whether the assessment of the proportion of the loss of earning capacity is provisional or final for the purpose of disablement benefit; or

(e) in the case of provisional assessment for the purpose of disablement benefit as to the period for which such an assessment shall hold good, shall be determined by a medical board constituted in accordance with the regulations, if any, and such question shall hereinafter be referred to as the "invalidity question" or "disablement question", as the case may be.

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32A. Determination of occupational diseases

(1) Any question whether an employment injury is caused by an occupational disease as specified in the Fifth Schedule may be determined by a medical board to be known as the Special Medical Board to be constituted in accordance with the regulations.

(2) The Special Medical Board shall examine the disable person and send a report in such form as may be specified by the Organization stating--

(a) whether the disabled person is suffering from one or more of the diseases specified in that Schedule;

(b) whether the relevant disease has resulted in permanent disablement;

(c) whether the extent of loss of earning capacity can be assessed provisionally or finally;

(d) the assessment of the proportion of loss of earning capacity, and in the case of provisional assessment, the period for which such assessment shall hold good. 

(3) The Organization may refer any assessment which is provisional to the Special Medical Board for review not later than the end of the period taken into account by the provisional assessment.

(4) Any decision of the Special Medical Board may be reviewed by it at any time.

(5) The disable person shall be informed in writing by the Organization of the decision of the Special Medical Board and the benefit, if any, to which the insured person shall be entitled.

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33. References to medical boards and appeals to appellate medical board

(1) The case of any insured person for invalidity pension or for permanent disablement benefit shall be referred by the Organization to a medical board for determination of the invalidity question or the disablement question, and if, on that or any subsequent reference, the extent of loss of earning capacity of the insured person is provisionally assessed, it shall again be so referred to the medical board not later than the end of the period taken into account by the provisional assessment.

(2) If the insured person or the Organization is not satisfied with the decision of the medical board, the insured person or the Organization may appeal, in the prescribed manner and within the prescribed time, to the appellate medical board constituted in accordance with the regulations.

(3) Regulations may prescribe that the claimant for invalidity pension or permanent disablement benefit called to appear before a medical board or, in the event of an appeal by the Organization, before the appellate medical board, in connection with the determination of the question of invalidity or the question of disablement, may be paid travelling and other expenses incurred by him in connection with such appearance in such cases and on such scale and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by the regulations.

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33A. Insured person dies before medical board examination

Where an insured person, having submitted his notice of invalidity or application for reference to the medical board for determination of the disablement question in accordance with the regulations, dies before being examined by a medical board, the Organization may in its discretion, subject to any available medical evidence to its satisfaction, refer such a case to the medical board for determination of the invalidity question or disablement question.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 Act 4/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 ACT 4,,/34.Review of decisions by medical board or appellate medical board

34. Review of decisions by medical board or appellate medical board

(1) Any decision under this Act of a medical board (including the Special Medical Board) or the appellate medical board may be reviewed at any time by the medical board or the appellate medical board, if it is satisfied by fresh evidence that the decision was given in consequence of the non-disclosure or misrepresentation by the employee or any other person of a material fact (whether the non-disclosure or misrepresentation was or was not fraudulent).

(2) Any assessment of the extent of the disablement resulting from the relevant employment injury may also be reviewed by a medical board, if it is satisfied that since the making of the assessment there has been a substantial and unforeseen aggravation of the results of the relevant injury:

Provided that an assessment shall not be reviewed under this subsection unless the medical board is of the opinion that, having regard to the period taken into account by the assessment, substantial injustice will be done by not reviewing it.

(3) Except with the leave of an appellate medical board, the assessment shall not be reviewed under subsection (2) on any application made less than three years, or in the case of a provisional assessment, six months, from the date thereof and on such a review the period to be taken into account by any revised assessment shall not include any period before the date of the application.

(4) Subject to subsection (3), a medical board may deal with a case of review in any manner in which it could deal with it on an original reference to it, and in particular may make a provisional assessment notwithstanding that the assessment under review was final; and section 33 shall apply to an application for review under this section and to a decision of a medical board in connection with such application as they apply to a case for disablement benefit under that section and to a decision of a medical board in connection with such case.

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35. Review of invalidity pension

(1) Subject to this Act and the regulations made in this behalf, the Organization may review the payment of any invalidity pension and as a result of such review may increase, continue, reduce or discontinue such pension.

(2) Where a review is necessary consequent upon improvement in the state of invalidity, invalidity pension shall not be withdrawn unless, from any such suitable occupation as he is still capable of undertaking, the pensioner is able to earn more than half of what can be earned by a physically and mentally sound person of his experience and training:

Provided that the invalidity pension shall be decreased by an amount equal to the amount earned in excess of one-third of his average wage before invalidity.

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36. Review of dependants' benefit

(1) Any decision awarding dependants' benefit or survivors' pension under this Act may be reviewed at any time by the Organization if it is satisfied by fresh evidence that the decision was given in consequence of non-disclosure or misrepresentation by the claimant or any other person of a material fact (whether the non-disclosure or misrepresentation was or was not fraudulent) or that the decision is no longer in accordance with this Act due to any birth or death or due to the marriage, remarriage, cessation of infirmity or the attainment of twenty-one years of age, by a claimant.

(2) Subject to this Act, the Organization may, on such review as mentioned above, direct that the dependants' benefit or survivors' pension be continued, increased, reduced or discontinued.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 Act 4/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 ACT 4,,/37.Medical benefit

37. Medical benefit

(1) An insured person whose condition requires, as a result of employment injury, medical treatment and attendance shall be entitled to receive medical benefit.

(2) Such medical benefit may be given either in the form of outpatient treatment and attendance in a hospital or dispensary, clinic or other institution or by visits to the home of the insured person or treatment as inpatient in hospital or other institution.

(3) (Deleted by Act A450).

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 Act 4/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 ACT 4,,/38.Scale of medical benefit

38. Scale of medical benefit

(1) An insured person shall be entitled to receive medical benefit only of such kind and on such scale as may be provided by the Organization, and the insured person shall not have a right to claim any medical treatment except such as is provided by the dispensary, clinic, hospital or other institution to which he is allotted, or as may be provided by the regulations.

(2) Nothing in this Act shall entitle an insured person to claim reimbursement from the Organization of any expenses incurred in respect of any medical treatment, except as may be provided by the regulations.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 Act 4/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 ACT 4,,/39.Establishment and maintenance of hospitals, etc.

39. Establishment and maintenance of hospitals, etc.

(1) The Organization may establish and maintain such hospitals, dispensaries and other medical and surgical services as it may think fit for the benefit of insured persons.

(2) The Organization may enter into agreement with any Government, local authority, person, private or individual in regard to the provisions of medical treatment and attendance for insured persons, in any area and payment of the cost of it.

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40. Organization's power to co-operate with existing institutions or promote measures for health, welfare, etc., of insured persons

(1) The Organization may, in addition to the scheme of benefits specified in this Act, promote measures or co-operate with existing institutions for the improvement of the health, occupational safety and welfare of insured persons and for the rehabilitation and re-employment of insured persons who have been disabled or injured and may incur in respect of such measures expenditure from the funds of the Organization within such limits as may be prescribed by the Minister.

(2) Measures under subsection (1) may include provision of artificial limbs and appliances, opportunities for gainful employment under suitable conditions and convalescent homes.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 Act 4/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 ACT 4,,/41.Benefit not assignable or attachable

41. Benefit not assignable or attachable

(1) The right to receive any payment of any benefit or invalidity grant under this Act, and the amount of contributions payable under this Act, shall not be transferable or assignable.

(2) No cash benefit including invalidity grant or contributions payable under this Act shall be liable to attachment or sale in execution of any decree or order of any court.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 Act 4/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 ACT 4,,/42.Omitted or Deleted Section

42. Omitted or Deleted Section

(Deleted by Act A981).

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 Act 4/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 ACT 4,,/43.Persons not to commute cash benefits

43. Persons not to commute cash benefits

Save as may be provided in the regulations no person shall be entitled to commute for a lump sum any periodical payment admissible under this Act:

Provided that where the loss of earning capacity has been assessed at more than twenty per cent, an insured person may opt for the commutation of one-fifth of the daily benefit payable for a lump sum and to receive the balance as periodical payments.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 Act 4/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 ACT 4,,/44.Persons not entitled to receive benefits in certain cases

44. Persons not entitled to receive benefits in certain cases

No person shall be entitled to disablement benefit for temporary disablement in respect of any day on which he works and receives wages.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 Act 4/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 ACT 4,,/45.Claimant of disablement benefit or invalidity pension to observe conditions

45. Claimant of disablement benefit or invalidity pension to observe conditions

The claimant of disablement benefit or invalidity pension shall attend and submit himself for such medical or other examination as the Organization or a medical board or the appellate medical board may consider necessary for ratification and certification of his disability or invalidity.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 Act 4/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 ACT 4,,/46.Recipients of disablement benefit to observe conditions

46. Recipients of disablement benefit to observe conditions

(1) A person who is in receipt of disablement benefit (other than benefit granted on permanent disablement)--

(a) shall remain under medical treatment at a dispensary, hospital, clinic or other institution provided under this Act and shall carry out the instructions given by the medical officer or medical attendant in charge of it;

(b) shall not while under treatment do anything which might prejudice his chances of recovery;

(c) shall not leave the area in which medical treatment provided by this Act is being given, without the permission of the medical officer, medical attendant or such other authority as may be specified in this behalf by the regulations; and

(d) shall allow himself to be examined by any duly appointed medical officer or other person authorized by the Organization in this behalf. 

(2) Disablement benefit for temporary disablement may be suspended, if a person who is in receipt of such benefit fails to comply with any of the requirements of subsection (1), and such suspension shall be for such number of days as may be decided by the Organization or any other person authorized in this behalf by the Organization.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 Act 4/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 ACT 4,,/47.Omitted or Deleted Section

47. Omitted or Deleted Section

(Deleted by Act A450).

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 Act 4/EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969 ACT 4,,/48.Organization's right where a principal employer fails or neglects to pay any contribution

48. Organization's right where a principal employer fails or neglects to pay any contribution

(1) If any principal employer fails or neglects to pay any contribution which under this Act he is liable to pay in respect of any employee and by reason of it such person or his dependants become entitled to benefit on a lower scale, the Organization may, on being satisfied that the contribution should have been paid by the principal employer, pay to the person or their dependants the benefit at the rate to which he or they would have been entitled if the failure or neglect had not occurred and the Organization shall be entitled to recover from the principal employer either--

(i) the difference between the amount of benefit which has been paid by the Organization to the said person or his dependants and the amount of the benefit which would have been payable on the basis of the contributions which were in fact paid by the employer; or

(ii) twice the amount of the contribution which the employer failed or neglected to pay, whichever is greater.

(2) The amount recoverable under this section may be recovered as a debt due to the Organization.

(3) This section shall not apply to invalidity pension.

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