Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1996, published 85th ILC session (1997)

Workmen's Compensation (Accidents) Convention, 1925 (No. 17) - Uganda (Ratification: 1963)

Article 5 of the Convention. The Committee notes the information contained in the Government's report, particularly that draft legislation revising the workers' compensation law is due for presentation to the competent authority for adoption. The Committee cannot but once again hope that the legislation will be adopted in the very near future and that it will ensure that compensation for permanent incapacity or death is paid in the form of periodical payments throughout the contingency, unless the competent authority is satisfied that a lump sum payment will be properly utilized, as is required under Article 5. The Committee asks the Government to supply a copy of the new Act once adopted.

[The Government is asked to report in detail in June 1997.]