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

Citation, commencement and interpretation

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.