The Social Security (Employed Earners' Employments for Industrial Injuries Purposes) Regulations 1975

Citation, commencement and interpretation E+W+S

1.—(1) These regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Employed Earners' Employments for Industrial Injuries Purposes) Regulations 1975, and shall come into operation on 6th April 1975.

(2) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

“the Act of 1975” means the Social Security Act 1975;

“ship or vessel”, for the purposes of these regulations, includes hovercraft;

“designated area” in relation to the Continental Shelf Act 1964 means any area which may from time to time be designated by Order in Council under that Act as an area within which the rights of the United Kingdom with respect to the sea bed and subsoil and their natural resources may be exercised;

other expressions to which meanings are assigned in the Continental Shelf Act 1964 have the same meanings as in that Act, and other expressions have the same meaning as in the Act of 1975.

(3) Any reference in these regulations to any provision made by or contained in any enactment or instrument shall, except in so far as the context otherwise requires, be construed as a reference to that provision as amended or extended by any enactment or instrument and as including a reference to any provision which it re-enacts or replaces.

(4) The rules for the construction of Acts of Parliament contained in the Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply in relation to this instrument and in relation to any revocation effected thereby as if these regulations, the regulations revoked by them and any regulations revoked by the regulations so revoked were Acts of Parliament, and as if each revocation were a repeal.

(5) Nothing in these regulations shall affect the operation of any Order in Council giving effect to a reciprocal agreement with the government of any country outside the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man, except in so far as the contrary intention appears in such Order in Council.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 1 in force at 6.4.1975, see reg. 1(1)

Employments to be treated for industrial injuries purposes as employed earners' employments E+W+S

2.  Subject to regulation 3 of these regulations, the employments specified in Part I of Schedule 1 to these regulations shall be treated as employed earners' employments for the purposes of Chapters IV and V of Part II of the Act of 1975.

Commencement Information

I2 Reg. 2 in force at 6.4.1975, see reg. 1(1)

Employments not to be treated for industrial injuries purposes as employed earners' employments E+W+S

3.  The employments specified in Part II of Schedule 1 to these regulations shall not be treated as employed earners' employments for the purposes of Chapters IV and V of Part II of the Act of 1975.

Commencement Information

I3 Reg. 3 in force at 6.4.1975, see reg. 1(1)

Employments relating to mariners to be treated for industrial injuries purposes as employed earners' employments E+W+S

4.  Subject to regulation 5 of these regulations, employments specified in Part I of Schedule 2 to these regulations shall be treated as employed earners' employments for the purposes of Chapters IV and V of Part II of the Act of 1975.

Commencement Information

I4 Reg. 4 in force at 6.4.1975, see reg. 1(1)

Employments relating to mariners not to be treated for industrial injuries purposes as employed earners' employments E+W+S

5.  The employments specified in Part II of Schedule 2 to these regulations shall not be treated as employed earners' employments for the purposes of Chapters IV and V of Part II of the Act of 1975.

Commencement Information

I5 Reg. 5 in force at 6.4.1975, see reg. 1(1)

Employments relating to airmen to be treated for industrial injuries purposes as employed earners' employments E+W+S

6.  Subject to regulation 7 of these regulations, employments specified in Part III of Schedule 2 to these regulations shall be treated as employed earners' employments for the purposes of Chapters IV and V of Part II of the Act of 1975.

Commencement Information

I6 Reg. 6 in force at 6.4.1975, see reg. 1(1)

Employments relating to airmen not to be treated for industrial injuries purposes as employed earners' employments E+W+S

7.  The employments specified in Part IV of Schedule 2 to these regulations shall not be treated as employed earners' employments for the purposes of Chapters IV and V of Part II of the Act of 1975.

Commencement Information

I7 Reg. 7 in force at 6.4.1975, see reg. 1(1)

Persons to be treated as employers for certain industrial injuries purposes E+W+S

8.  In relation to any employed earner who is employed in any employment specified in column 1 of Schedule 3 to these regulations, the person specified opposite thereto in column 2 of that Schedule shall, for the purposes of industrial injuries benefit and its administration, be treated as that person's employer in that employment.

Commencement Information

I8 Reg. 8 in force at 6.4.1975, see reg. 1(1)

Revocations and general savings E+W+S

9.—(1) The regulations specified in column 1 of Schedule 4 to these regulations are hereby revoked to the extent mentioned in column 3 of that Schedule.

(2) Anything whatsoever done under or by virtue of any regulations revoked by these regulations shall be deemed to have been done under or by virtue of the corresponding provisions of these regulations, and anything whatsoever begun under any such regulations may be continued under these regulations as if begun under these regulations.

(3) Nothing in paragraph (2) of this regulation shall be taken as affecting the general application by regulation 1(4) of these regulations of the rules for the construction of Acts of Parliament contained in section 38 of the Interpretation Act 1889 (effect of repeals) with regard to the effect of revocations.

Commencement Information

I9 Reg. 9 in force at 6.4.1975, see reg. 1(1)

Barbara Castle

Secretary of State for Social Services