# The Employers' Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Exemption (Amendment) Regulations 1992

S.I. 1992/3172 · made 10 December 1992

These Regulations amend the Employers' Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Exemption Regulations 1971 (S.I. 1971/1933) (the 1971 Regulations). The 1971 Regulations list employers who are exempted from the requirement of the Employers' Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969 (c. 57) (the 1969 Act) to insure and maintain insurance against liability for bodily injury or disease sustained by their employees and arising out of and in the course of their employment. The exemptions listed in the 1971 Regulations are additional to those contained in section 3 of the 1969 Act.

Made under: Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969 (Section 3, Section 6)

## Introductory text

INSURANCE
Made 10th December 1992
Laid before Parliament 18th December 1992
Coming into force 1st July 1994
The Secretary of State in exercise of her powers under sections 3(1)(c) and 6 of the Employers' Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969 and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

## 1 Commencement and citation

These Regulations may be cited as the Employers' Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Exemption (Amendment) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 1st July 1994.

## 2 Amendment of the Employers' Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Exemption Regulations 1971

Regulation 3 of the Employers' Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Exemption Regulations 1971 shall be amended as follows:—
(a) at the end of paragraph (y) for the full stop there shall be substituted a semi-colon; and
(b) after paragraph (y) there shall be inserted the following new paragraph:—
“(z) any employer to the extent he is required to insure and maintain insurance by section 1(1) of the Act against liability for bodily injury sustained by his employee when the employee is—
(i) carried in or upon a vehicle; or
(ii) entering or getting on to, or alighting from, a vehicle,
in the circumstances specified in that subsection and where that bodily injury is caused by, or arises out of, the use by the employer of a vehicle on a road; and the expressions “road”, “use” and “vehicle” have the same meanings as in Part VI of the Road Traffic Act 1988(a).”.

## Signature

Signed by order of the Secretary of State.
Patrick McLoughlin
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Employment
10th December 1992

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Employers' Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Exemption Regulations 1971 (S.I. 1971/1933) (the 1971 Regulations). The 1971 Regulations list employers who are exempted from the requirement of the Employers' Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969 (c. 57) (the 1969 Act) to insure and maintain insurance against liability for bodily injury or disease sustained by their employees and arising out of and in the course of their employment. The exemptions listed in the 1971 Regulations are additional to those contained in section 3 of the 1969 Act.
These Regulations will exempt any employer to the extent he is required to insure and maintain insurance by section 1(1) of the 1969 Act against liability for bodily injury sustained by his employee who is carried in or upon a vehicle or who is entering or getting on to, or alighting from, a vehicle, in the circumstances specified in that subsection and where that bodily injury is caused by, or arises out of, the use by the employer of a vehicle on a road.
The amendments made by these Regulations are consequential upon the changes made to Part VI of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (c. 52) by regulation 2(3) of the Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/3036).

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