Employer’s Liability (Compulsory Insurance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2004 No. 449

EMPLOYER'S LIABILITY

Employer’s Liability (Compulsory Insurance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Made

25th October 2004

Coming into operation

29th November 2004

The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment(1), in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 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 all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement N.I.

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Employer’s Liability (Compulsory Insurance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 29th November 2004.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 1 in operation at 29.11.2004, see reg. 1

Amendment of the Employer’s Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 N.I.

2.  For Schedule 2 to the Employer’s Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999(4) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Commencement Information

I2 Reg. 2 in operation at 29.11.2004, see reg. 1

Revocation N.I.

3.  The Employer’s Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Exemption (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003(5) are hereby revoked.

Commencement Information

I3 Reg. 3 in operation at 29.11.2004, see reg. 1

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment on 25th October 2004.

L.S.

Michael J. Bohill

A senior officer of the

Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE N.I. SCHEDULE TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR SCHEDULE 2 TO THE EMPLOYER'S LIABILITY (COMPULSORY INSURANCE) REGULATIONS (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1999

Commencement Information

I4 Sch. in operation at 29.11.2004, see reg. 1

Regulation 9

“SCHEDULE 2 N.I. EMPLOYERS EXEMPTED FROM INSURANCE

1.   Any district council.

2.   Any Education and Library Board established under Article 3 of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(6).

3.   Any employer to the extent that he is required by paragraph (1) of Article 5 of the 1972 Order to insure and maintain insurance against liability for personal injury suffered by his employee when the employee is –

(i) carried in or upon a motor vehicle; or

(ii) entering or getting on to, or alighting from, a motor vehicle,

in the circumstances specified in that paragraph and where that personal injury is caused by, or arises out of, the use by the employer of a motor vehicle on a road; and the expressions “road” and “motor vehicle” have the same meanings as in Part I of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(7).

4.   Any Health and Social Services Board established under Article 16 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972(8).

5.   Any subsidiary of any such body as is mentioned in Article 7(b) of the 1972 Order (which exempts any body corporate established by or under any statutory provision for the carrying on of any industry or part of an industry, or of any undertaking, under public ownership or control) and any company of which two or more such bodies are members and which would, if these bodies were a single body corporate, be a subsidiary of that body corporate.

6.   Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland Limited.

7.   General Consumer Council for Northern Ireland.

8.   Ilex Urban Regeneration Company Limited.

9.   Invest Northern Ireland.

10.   Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency.

11.   Northern Ireland Tourist Board.

12.   Planning Appeals Commission.

13.   Strategic Investment Board.

14.   The Fire Authority for Northern Ireland.

15.   The Guardian Ad Litem Special Agency.

16.   The Local Government Staff Commission for Northern Ireland.

17.   The Mental Health Commission for Northern Ireland.

18.   The Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service Special Agency.

19.   The Northern Ireland Central Services Agency.

20.   The Northern Ireland Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment.

21.   The Northern Ireland Local Government Officers' Superannuation Committee.

22.   The Northern Ireland Practice and Education Council For Nursing and Midwifery.

23.   The Northern Ireland Social Care Council.

24.   The Regional Medical Physics Agency.

25.   The Staffs Council for Health and Personal Social Services.”

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the Employer’s Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 (“the 1999 Regulations”). The 1999 Regulations specify employers who are exempted from the requirements of Part III of the Employer’s Liability (Defective Equipment and Compulsory Insurance) (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 (“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 specified employers are certain public bodies; the specified classes of employer include any employer to the extent that he is required to insure under a compulsory motor insurance scheme by virtue of the fact that his employees are carried on, or are alighting from or are entering into, a motor vehicle. The exemptions specified in the 1999 Regulations are additional to those contained in Article 7 of the 1972 Order.

These Regulations remove The National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting for Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education from, and add the following bodies to, the exemptions specified in the 1999 Regulations, that is to say –

• Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland Limited;

• General Consumer Council for Northern Ireland;

• Ilex Urban Regeneration Company Limited;

• Invest Northern Ireland;

• Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency;

• Northern Ireland Tourist Board;

• Strategic Investment Board; and

• The Northern Ireland Practice and Education Council for Nursing and Midwifery.

(1)

Formerly the Department of Economic Development; see S.I. 1982/846 (N.I. 11), Article 3 and S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1) Article 3(5)

(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. 1999 No. 448

(5)

S.R. 2003 No. 426

(6)

S.I. 1986/594 (N.I. 3); Article 3 was amended by S.I. 1989/2406 (N.I. 20)

(7)

S.I. 1995/2994 (N.I. 18)

(8)

S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14)