Section 26: Health care and disability support.

(1) In addition to the other compensation provided by this Act, the Board may provide for the injured employee any medical, surgical, hospital, nursing and other care or treatment, transport, medicines, crutches and apparatus, including artificial members, that it may consider reasonably necessary at the time of the injury, and thereafter during the disability, to cure and relieve from the effects of the injury or alleviate those effects, the Board may adopt rules and regulations with respect to furnishing health care to injured employees entitled to it and for the payment of it.
(2) The Board may make a daily allowance for the subsistence of an injured employee when, under its direction, the employee is undergoing treatment at a place other than the place where the employee resides, and the power of the Board to make a daily allowance for subsistence under this section extends to an injured employee who receives compensation, regardless of the date the employee first became entitled to compensation.
(3) Where in a case of emergency, or for other justifiable cause, a physician or accredited medical practitioner other than the one provided by the Board is called in to treat the injured employee, and if the Board finds there was a justifiable cause and that the charge for the services is reasonable, the cost of the services shall be paid by the Board.
(4) The Board may authorize employers to provide health care at the expense of the Board on terms fixed by the Board and the employer shall provide to an injured employee, when necessary immediate conveyance and transport to a hospital or accredited medical practitioner for initial treatment.
(5) Health care furnished or provided under sub-section (3) or (4) of this section shall at all times be subject to the direction, supervision and control of the Board and the Board may enter into contract with any medical practitioner, nurse or other person, accredited by the Board, authorized to treat human ailments, hospitals and other institutions for any health care required, and to agree on a scale of fees or remuneration for that health care; and all questions as to the necessity, character and sufficiency of health care to be provided shall be determined by the Board.
(6) The fees or remuneration for health care provided under this section shall not be more than the fees that would be properly and reasonably charged if the employee were paying, and the Board may, from time to time, fix and determine the amount, on the advice of the Minister charged with responsibility for health.
(7) Without limiting the powers of the Board under this section to supervise and provide health care in every case where it considers the exercise of such powers expedient, the Board shall permit health care to be administered by the physician or medical practitioner who may be selected or employed by the injured employee.
(8) The Board may assume the responsibility of replacement and repair of-
(a) artificial appliances, including artificial limbs or members damaged or broken as the result of an accident arising out of and in the course of the employment of an employee; and
(b) eye glasses, dentures and hearing aids broken as a result of an accident arising out of and in the course of employment if such breakage is accompanied by objective signs of personal injury, or, where there is no personal injury if the accident is otherwise corroborated.
(9) Where an injury to an employee results in serious impairment of the sight of the employee, the Board may, to protect the remaining vision of the employee, provide the employee with protective eye glasses