Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) (Amendment No. 3) (Jersey) Law 2007

Employers' Liability (Compulsory Insurance) (Amendment No. 3) (Jersey) Law 2007

A LAW to amend further the Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) (Jersey) Law 1973

Adopted by the States                                                      4th July 2006

Sanctioned by Order of Her Majesty in Council 14th December 2006

Registered by the Royal Court                                  5th January 2007

THE STATES, subject to the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have adopted the following Law –

1        Interpretation

In this Law, “principal Law” means the Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) (Jersey) Law 1973[1].

2        Article 1 amended

(1)     Article 1(1) of the principal Law shall be amended –

(a)     by inserting after the definition “business” the following definition –

“ ‘educational establishment’ means a university, college, school or similar educational or technical institute;”;

(b)     in the definition “employee”, by substituting a semicolon for the full stop;

(c)     by adding after the definition “Minister” the following definition –

“ ‘relevant training’ means work experience provided pursuant to a training course or programme, or training for employment, or both, except where –

(a)     the immediate provider of the work experience or training for employment is an educational establishment and it is provided on a course run by the establishment; or

(b)     it is received under a contract of employment.”.”

(2)     In Article 1 of the principal Law, after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following paragraph –

“(1A) For the purposes of this Law, where a person is being provided with relevant training –

(a)     the person providing the training is the employer of the person receiving the training;

(b)     the person receiving the training is the employee of the person providing it; and

(c)     the training is being provided in the course of the employment of the person providing the training of the person receiving it.”.

3        Citation and commencement

(1)     This Law may be cited as the Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) (Amendment No. 3) (Jersey) Law 2007.

(2)     This Law shall come into force on the seventh day after its registration.

m.n. de la haye

Greffier of the States

 


 



[1]                                    chapter 05.225


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