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Workers' Compensation Amendment Act 1971

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Short Title

Employers and workers to whom Part III of principal Act applies

Power to exempt employers from compulsory insurance

Insurance to continue from year to year, unless otherwise terminated

Insurance in respect of persons who are not workers

Unauthorised expenditure of Workers’ Compensation Board

Workers’ Compensation Amendment Act 1971

Public Act		1971 No 44
Date of assent		5 November 1971

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Employers and workers to whom Part III of principal Act applies
3	Power to exempt employers from compulsory insurance
4	Insurance to continue from year to year, unless otherwise terminated
5	Insurance in respect of persons who are not workers
6	Unauthorised expenditure of Workers’ Compensation Board
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Workers’ Compensation Act 1956

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Workers’ Compensation Amendment Act 1971, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Workers’ Compensation Act 1956 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Employers and workers to whom Part III of principal Act applies

Section 83 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting in subsection (5), after the words “secondary school”, the words “or technical institute”.

3 Power to exempt employers from compulsory insurance

Section 84 of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection (2), and substituting the following subsection:

“(2)

For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section, in considering whether any employer has, and at all material times will have, adequate financial resources, the Secretary of Labour may take into account any indemnity to which the employer is entitled by virtue of any ship of which he is the owner, charterer, or agent being entered in a mutual protecting club.”

4 Insurance to continue from year to year, unless otherwise terminated

Section 88 of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection (4), and substituting the following subsection:

“(4)

Where a period of not less than 1 year has elapsed since the end of the period covered by the estimate of wages contained in a statement delivered by an employer to an insurer or covered by a further statement of wages delivered by an employer to an insurer in accordance with paragraph (a) of the second proviso to subsection (1) of this section, the insurer may apply to the Board for the termination of the period of the insurance; and on receipt of any such application the Board may in its discretion refuse or defer the application or terminate the period of the insurance accordingly.”

5 Insurance in respect of persons who are not workers

Section 98 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (d) of subsection (2) the words “(other than subsection (1) of section 86 and section 88)”.

6 Unauthorised expenditure of Workers’ Compensation Board

Section 108 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (5) (as added by section 5 of the Workers’ Compensation Amendment Act 1959 and amended by section 7(1) of the Decimal Currency Act 1964) the words “two hundred dollars” and substituting the expression “$400”.

This Act is administered in the Department of Labour.

Workers' Compensation Amendment Act 1971