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The Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) (Amendment) Regulations 2011

S.I. 2011/686 · Made 3 March 2011

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Insurance

Made 3rd March 2011

Laid before Parliament 10th March 2011

Coming into force 6th April 2011

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 3(1)(c) and 6 of the Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969f1, makes the following Regulations.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1969 c.57.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment of the Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Regulations 1998
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 and shall come into force on 6th April 2011.

2Amendment of the Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Regulations 1998

Schedule 2 to the Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Regulations 1998f1 (employers exempted from insurance), is amended as follows—

(a)

in paragraph 1, for “National Assembly for Wales” in both places substitute “the Welsh Ministers”f2 and for “monies provided by that Assembly” substitute “out of the Welsh Consolidated Fund”.

(b)

after paragraph (15), add—

“(16)

The Auditor General for Wales.

(17)

The Electoral Commission.

(18)

The Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration.

(19)

The Health Service Commissioner for England.

(20)

The National Assembly for Wales Commissioner for Standards.

(21)

The Public Services Ombudsman for Wales.

(22)

The Comptroller and Auditor General.

(23)

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority”.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

Freud

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for Work and Pensions

3rd March 2011

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations are made under the Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969. They amend the Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Regulations 1998 by inserting new paragraphs into Schedule 2 to those Regulations. The effect of the insertions is to exempt the Auditor General for Wales, the Electoral Commission, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration, the Health Service Commissioner for England, the National Assembly for Wales Commissioner for Standards, the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales, the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority from the requirements to hold employers’ liability insurance.

A full impact assessment has not been published for this instrument as it has no impact on the private sector and civil society organisations.