Legal Definition

employment injury

Defined under: Code on Social Security, 2020

Code on Social Security, 2020
means a personal injury to an employee, caused by accident or an occupational disease, as the case may be, arising out of and in the course of his employment,— (i) for the purposes of Chapter IV, if the employee is an insured or insurable employee under section 28 whether such accident occurs or the occupational disease is contracted within or outside the territorial limits of India; and (ii) for the purposes of Chapter VII, whether such accident occurs or the occupational disease is contracted within or outside the territorial limits of India