Employer’s Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Exemption (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

1997 No. 51

EMPLOYER'S LIABILITY

Employer’s Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Exemption (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Made

6th February 1997

Coming into operation

24th March 1997

The Department of Economic Development(1), in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 7(c) and 10(1) of the Employer’s Liability (Defective Equipment and Compulsory Insurance) (Northern Ireland) Order 1972(2) and now vested in it(3) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Employer’s Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Exemption (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 24th March 1997.

Amendment of the Employer’s Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Exemption Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1975

2.  Regulation 3 of the Employer’s Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Exemption Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1975(4) shall be amended as follows:—

(a) at the end of sub-paragraph (j) for the full stop there shall be substituted “; and”; and

(b) after sub-paragraph (j) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph:—

“(k) any Education and Library Board established under Article 3 of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(5).”

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Economic Development on

L.S.

Philip B. Strong

Assistant Secretary

6th February 1997.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the Employer’s Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Exemption Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1975 (S.R. 1975 No. 230) (“the 1975 Regulations”). The 1975 Regulations specify the employers who are exempted from the requirements of Part III of the Employer’s Liability (Defective Equipment and Compulsory Insurance) (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 (S.I. 1972/963 (N.I. 6)) (“the 1972 Order”) to insure and maintain insurance against liability for personal injury suffered by their employees and arising out of and in the course of their employment. The exemptions specified in the 1975 Regulations are additional to those contained in Article 7 of the 1972 Order.

These Regulations add to the exemptions specified in the 1975 Regulations so as to exempt any Education and Library Board established under Article 3 of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/594 (N.I. 3)).

(1)

Formerly the Department of Manpower Services; see S.I. 1982/846 (N.I. 11), Article 3

(2)

S.I. 1972/963 (N.I. 6)

(3)

By S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1973 No. 504, Article 6 and Schedule 3

(4)

S.R. 1975 No. 230; regulation 3 was amended by S.R. 1993 No. 365

(5)

S.I. 1986/594 (N.I. 3)