| (1) | The Minister may make such arrangements as he or she deems necessary or desirable for the proper investigation of all matters affecting the health of persons employed in or at mines or works and for the medical treatment of persons suffering from any compensatable disease. |
| (2) | The Minister may in his discretion from moneys in the Research Account and, in consultation with the Minister of State Expenditure, from moneys appropriated by Parliament for that purpose— |
| (a) | on such conditions as the Minister deems fit, subsidize or pay wholly or partly the cost of maintenance and other expenses of, any institution or organization having as its object the doing of research with a view to the protection of the health of persons employed in or at or in connection with mines or works, or the prevention or alleviation of diseases to which such persons are exposed, or establish such an institution or organization; |
| (b) | on such conditions and in such manner and in such amounts as the Minister deems fit, subsidize any person or group of persons whose object is the doing of research in connection with any disease or working conditions to which persons employed in or at or in connection with mines or works are exposed, or award to such person or group of persons a bursary or bursaries; |
| (c) | on such conditions and in such manner as the Minister deems fit, subsidize or pay wholly or partly the cost of maintenance of any institution or organization having as its object the medical treatment or the care of persons suffering from compensatable diseases; |
| (d) | on such conditions and in such manner as the Minister deems fit, establish institutions for the medical treatment of persons suffering from compensatable diseases and pay the cost of maintenance in whole or in part and any other costs of any such institutions; |
| (e) | on such conditions and in such manner and on such scale as the Minister deems fit, pay the travelling or other costs incurred by persons suffering from compensatable diseases in order to enable such persons to undergo medical treatment. |
[Section 120(2) amended by section 38 of the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Amendment Act, No. 208 of 1993]
| (3) | [Section 120(3) deleted by section 38 of the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Amendment Act, No. 208 of 1993] |
