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Original Language Title: Laki virkatehtävässä apuna olleelle henkilölle eräissä tapauksissa suoritettavasta tapaturmakorvauksesta

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Law on the compensation to be paid in certain cases to the person who was assisted by the law

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In accordance with the decision of the Parliament:

ARTICLE 1 (24.4.2010)

In the case of an accident or an occupational disease, the police officer, a border guard, a customs officer, an official in prison or a prison driver assisted by an official or a prison driver shall be remunerated by the State According to the same criteria as accidents at work and occupational diseases (10/09/2015) Provides for an accident at work and occupational disease.

Compensation shall be applied to the State Treasury within one year of the date of birth of the injury or disease or of the occupational disease. If the person concerned has been killed in the event of an injury or illness or an occupational disease, the claim shall be submitted within one year of the date of death.

The handling of the claim and the appeal shall be governed by the provisions of the occupational accident and occupational disease.

L to 42/2015 Article 1 shall enter into force on 1 January 2016. The previous wording reads:

ARTICLE 1

If the person who has been assisted by a police officer, a border guard or a prison official or a prison driver who has been assisted by a police officer in the course of his/her duties, he/she has suffered a bodily injury, he and, if: Death, in the accident insurance law of 20 August 1948, (20,8/48) Are entitled to receive compensation from State resources in accordance with that law.

Compensation shall be applied to the accident agency within one year from the date on which the injury occurred, or, if the person concerned has died, from the day of death.

The processing and application of the amendment shall apply mutatis mutandis, as provided for in the said Act.

ARTICLE 2

More detailed provisions on the implementation of this law may be adopted by a regulation.


This Act shall enter into force on 1 January 1968.

Entry into force and application of amending acts:

24.4.2015/476:

This Act shall enter into force on 1 January 2016.

THEY 277/2014 , StVM 49/2014, TyVL 18/2014, EV 315/2014