The Employer’s Liability (Compulsory Insurance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022

Made: 11th March 2022

Coming into operation: 1st April 2022

The Department for the Economy[^f00001] makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 7(c) and 10 of the Employer’s Liability (Defective Equipment and Compulsory Insurance) (Northern Ireland) Order 1972[^f00002] and now vested in it[^f00003].

Citation and commencement

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These Regulations may be cited as the Employer’s Liability (Compulsory Insurance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2022.

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

2

For Schedule 2 to the Employer’s Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999[^f00004] substitute the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Revocation

3

The Employer’s Liability (Compulsory Insurance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019[^f00005] are revoked.

SCHEDULE — SCHEDULE TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR SCHEDULE 2 TO THE EMPLOYER’S LIABILITY (COMPULSORY INSURANCE) REGULATIONS (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1999

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for the Economy on 11th March 2022.

Colin Jack — A senior officer of the — Department for the Economy

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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 employers to the extent that they are required to insure under a compulsory motor insurance scheme by virtue of the fact that their 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 add the Commissioner for Survivors of Institutional Childhood Abuse, the Construction Industry Training Board, and the Victims’ Payments Board to the exemptions in Schedule 2 to the 1999 Regulations.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: Formerly the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment; see 2016 c.5, section 1(3); that Department was formerly the Department of Economic Development; see S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1), Article 3(5); that Department was formerly the Department of Manpower Services; see S.I. 1982/846 (N.I. 11), Article 3

[^f00002]: S.I. 1972/963 (N.I. 6)

[^f00003]: S.R. & O. (N. I.) 1973 No. 504, Article 6 and Schedule 3

[^f00004]: S.R. 1999 No. 448

[^f00005]: S.R. 2019 No. 205

[^f00006]: S.I. 1995/2994 (N.I. 18)

[^f00007]: The Construction Industry Training Board was established by Article 2 of the Industrial Training (Construction Board) Order (Northern Ireland) 1964 (S.R. & O. (N. I.) 1964 No. 145)