8. Section 4 of the principal Act is amended —
(a)
by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsection:
“(1) If —
(a)
an employee who is employed in any occupation specified in the second column of the Second Schedule contracts an occupational disease specified in the first column of that Schedule opposite that occupation; or
(b)
an employee who has been employed in that occupation contracts that disease within the period specified in the third column of that Schedule opposite that occupation after ceasing to be so employed,
and the incapacity or death of the employee results from that disease, compensation shall be payable as if the disease were a personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of that employment, and all the other provisions of this Act shall apply accordingly, subject to this section.”;
(b)
by deleting subsection (3) and substituting the following subsection:
“(3) No compensation shall be payable by an employer under this section in respect of the incapacity or death of an employee resulting from the employee contracting an occupational disease if the employee’s incapacity commences or his death happens more than the period specified in the third column of the Second Schedule opposite the disease after the employee ceases to be in his employment.”;
(c)
by inserting, immediately before the word “disease” in subsections (4), (5) and (6), the word “occupational”;
(d)
by inserting, immediately after the words “For all other purposes of this Act,” in subsection (5), the words “in a claim for compensation under this section,”; and
(e)
by deleting the words “a disease” in subsection (7) and substituting the words “an occupational disease”.