(a) If an employer carries on business chiefly in the Republic and an employee of his ordinarily employed in the Republic, meets with an accident while temporarily employed outside the Republic, such employee shall, subject to paragraph (c), be entitled to compensation as if the accident had happened in the Republic.
(b) The amount of compensation contemplated in paragraph (a) shall be determined on the basis of the
earnings which the employee, in the opinion of the Director-General, would have received if he had
remained in the Republic.
(c) This subsection shall cease to apply to an employee after he has been employed outside the Republic for a continuous period of 12 months, save by agreement between the Director-General, the employee and the employer concerned, and subject to such conditions as the Director-General may determine.
