The Fund provides for the payment of compensation to:

• any person whose disablement for work is reasonably attributable to a dust disease
• the dependants of any worker who has contracted a dust disease and has subsequently died from that disease
• the dependants of any deceased worker who immediately before death was receiving or was entitled to receive weekly payments of compensation for disablement as a result of a dust disease
• the dependants of any deceased worker who had applied for compensation, prior to death, and was certified by the Medical Authority constituted under the Act to have contracted a dust disease to an extent that could have caused disablement for work
• a spouse of a deceased workerwho has exhausted the previous lump sum of compensation awarded by the Silicosis Committee in respect of the death of the partner after contacting a dust disease.