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Workmen's Compensation (Occupational Diseases) Convention, 1925 (No. 18) - Nicaragua (RATIFICATION: 1934)

Part III of the report form. Please state to what authority or authorities the application of the legislation and administrative regulations, etc., giving effect to the Convention is entrusted, and by what methods application is supervised and enforced. In particular, please supply information on the organization and working of inspection.

Part IV of the report form. Please state whether courts of law or other tribunals have given decisions involving questions of principle relating to the application of the Convention. If so, please supply the text of these decisions.

Part V of the report form. Please give a general appreciation of the manner in which the Convention is applied by supplying extracts from the reports of the inspection services, information concerning the processes carried on in your country, which give rise to the diseases mentioned in the Schedule appended to the Convention, with an indication of the extent to which they are carried on, the number of workers employed in the industries and processes concerned, the number of cases of such diseases which have been reported, the sums paid by way of compensation.