(1) Subject to subsection (2)— (a) any award of compensation in respect of an injury to or the death of a person made under a repealed law shall, on and after the 14th November, 1980, continue to have effect in terms of and subject to the repealed law concerned; (b) any remuneration, allowance or expense payable in respect of an injury to or the death of a person in terms of a repealed law shall, on and after the 14th November, 1980, continue to be so payable in terms of and subject to the repealed law concerned; and for the purpose of paragraphs (a) and (b) the repealed laws concerned shall remain in force. (2) In the application of the repealed laws to claims for compensation and matters associated therewith— (a) any reference to a board shall be construed as a reference to the Commissioner; and (b) if the Minister responsible for finance has, in terms of section 7 of the Pensions Review Act [Chapter 16:03], increased the amounts referred to in section 8, 18 or 25 of this Act, the amounts referred to in section 19, 25 or 35, as the case may be, of the Victims of Terrorism (Compensation) Act [Chapter 340 of 1974] shall be deemed to have been increased by a like amount. FIRST SCHEDULE (Section 7) DEGREES OF DISABLEMENT Degree of Disablement per centum A General 1. 2. 100 Loss of hand and foot above the site of Symes amputation 100 Injury resulting in the person concerned being permanently bedridden B Injury to upper limb 1. Loss of both hands or loss of both arms at higher sites 100 2. Loss of remaining arm by a person who has previously had one arm amputated 100 3. Loss of arm at shoulder or below shoulder with stump of less than 20 centimetres from tip to acromion 70 4. Loss of arm from 20 centimetres below tip of acromion to less than 11 centimetres below tip of olecranon. 68 5. Loss of arm 11 centimetres below tip of olecranon 65 Degree of Disablement per centum B Injury to upper limb 6. 7. 8. 9. Loss of hand at wrist 60 Loss of four fingers and thumb of one hand Loss of four fingers on one hand 35 Loss of thumb— (a) both phalanges 25 60

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