Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Employers' Liability (Compulsory Insurance) General Regulations 1971 (S. I.1971/1117) (“the 1971 Regulations”). The 1971 Regulations, as amended by the Employers' Liability (Compulsory Insurance) (Amendment) Regulations 1975 (S. I.1975/194), were applied to employers of persons working on or from offshore installations or associated structures in connection with those installations in designated areas of the Continental Shelf and the territorial waters adjacent to Great Britain by the Employers' Liability (Compulsory Insurance) (Offshore Installations) Regulations 1975 (S. I.1975/1443). The Employers' Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969 (c. 57) was applied to those employers by the Offshore Installations (Application of the Employers' Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969) Regulations 1975 (S. I. 1975/1289).

The effect of the amendment is that in the case of a company and its subsidiaries the existing requirement to insure and to maintain insurance for two million pounds by each of them prescribed in regulation 3 of the 1971 Regulations will be deemed to have been satisfied if the company insures and maintains insurance (where required) for itself and on behalf of its subsidiaries for that amount in respect of claims relating to any one or more of its own employees and to any one or more employees of its subsidiaries arising out of any one occurrence.