law: The Employee's Compensation Act, 1923
  2[4. Amount of compensation.-
  (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the amount of compensation shall be as follows, namely:-
  2[(1A) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), while fixing the amount of compensation payable to a1[employee] in respect of an accident occurred outside India, the Commissioner shall take into account the amount of compensation, if any, awarded to such 1[employee] in accordance with the law of the country in which the accident occurred and shall reduce the amount fixed by him by the amount of compensation awarded to the 1[employee] in accordance with the law of that country.]
  3[(1B) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify, for the purposes of sub-section (I), such monthly wages in relation to an employee as it may consider necessary;]
  (2) The half-monthly payment referred to in clause (d) of sub-section (1) shall be payable on the sixteenth day- (i) from the date of disablement where such disablement lasts for a period of twenty-eight days or more, or
  (ii) after the expiry of a waiting period of three days from the date of disablement where such disablement lasts for a period of less than twenty-eight days; and thereafter half-monthly during the disablement or during a period of five years, whichever period is shorter:
  Provided that-
  (a) there shall deducted from any lump sum or half-monthly payments to which the 1[employee] is entitled the amount of any payment or allowance which the 1[employee] has received from the employer by way of compensation during the period of disablement prior to the receipt of such lump sum or of the first half-monthly payment, as the case may be; and
  (b) no half-monthly payment shall in any case exceed the amount, if any, by which half the amount of the monthly wages of the 1[employee] before the accident execeds half the amount of such wages which he is earning after the accident.
  Explanation.-Any payment or allowance which the 1[employee] has received from the employer towards his medical treatment shall not be deemed to be a payment or allowance received by him by way of compensation within the meaning of clause (a) of the proviso.
  3[(2A) The employee shall be reimbursed the actual medical expenditure incurred by him for treatment of injuries caused during the course of employment.]
  (3) On the ceasing of the disablement before the date on which any half-monthly payment falls due there shall be payable in respect of that half-month a sum proportionate to the duration of the disablement in that half-month.]
  1[(4) If the injury of the 2[employee] results his death, the employer shall, in addition to the compensation under sub-section (1), deposit with the Commissioner a sum of 3[two thousand and five hundred rupees] for payment of the same to the eldest surviving dependant of the 2[employee] towards the expenditure of the funeral of such 2[employee] or where the 2[employee] did not have a dependant or was not living with his dependant at the time of his death to the person who actually incurred such expenditure.]
  4[Provided that the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, from time to time, enhance the amount specified in this sub-section.]
  1. Subs. by Act 45 of 2009, s. 5, for "workman" (w.e.f. 18-1-2010)
  2. Subs. by Act 22 of 1984, s. 3, for s. 4 (w.e.f. 1-7-1984).
  3. Subs. by Act 30 of 1995, s. 4, for "forty per cent." (w.e.f. 15-9-1995).
  4. Subs. by Act 45 of 2009, s. 7, for "eighty thousand rupees" (w.e.f. 18-1-2010). Earlier it was amended by Act 46 of 2000, s. 3 (w.e.f. 8-12-2000).
  5. Subs. by Act 45 of 1995, s.4,for "fifty per cent." (w.e.f. 15-9-1995).
  6. Subs. by Act 45 of 2009, s. 7, for "ninety thousand rupees" (w.e.f. 18-1-2010). Earlier it was amended by Act 46 of 2000, s. 3 (w.e.f. 8-12-2000).
  7. Ins. by s. 7, ibid. (w.e.f. 18-1-2010).
  8. Explanation II omitted by s. 7, ibid. (w.e.f.18-1-2010).
  1. Subs. by Act 45 of 2009, s. 5, for "workman" (w.e.f . 18-1-2010).
  2. Ins. by Act 30 of 1995, s. 4 (w.e.f. 15-9-1995).
  3. Ins. by Act 45 of 2009, s. 7 (w.e.f. 18-1-2010).