S.I. No. 77/1952 - Social Welfare (Great Britain Reciprocal Arrangements) (No. 2) Order, 1952.

S.I. No. 77 of 1952.

SOCIAL WELFARE (GREAT BRITAIN RECIPROCAL ARRANGEMENTS) (No. 2) ORDER, 1952.

WHEREAS by virtue of Section 2 of the Social Welfare (Reciprocal Arrangements) Act, 1948 (No. 10 of 1948), the arrangements in respect of matters relating to National Health Insurance, Unemployment Insurance and compensation or benefit payable in respect of injuries arising out of and in the course of a person's employment and diseases or injuries due to the nature of a person's employment set out in the Agreement in the Schedule to this Order have, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, been made by the Minister for Social Welfare with the proper authority of Great Britain.

NOW THEREFORE the Minister for Social Welfare, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Section 3 of the said Act and of each and every other power him in this behalf enabling, hereby makes the following Order :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Social Welfare (Great Britain Reciprocal Arrangements) (No. 2) Order, 1952.

2. The provisions contained in the Agreement set out in the Schedule to this Order shall have full force and effect as from the 31st day of March, 1952, and the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1950, the Unemployment Insurance Acts, 1920 to 1948, and the Workmen's Compensation Acts, 1934 and 1948, shall have effect subject to such modifications as may be required for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions contained in the said Agreement.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Social Welfare this 28th day of March, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-two.

SÉAMAS Ó RIAIN,

Minister for Social Welfare.

SCHEDULE.

AGREEMENT RELATING TO INSURANCE AND WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION FOR MASTERS AND MEMBERS OF THE CREWS OF SHIPS AND VESSELS MADE THIS SEVENTEENTH DAY OF MARCH IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-TWO BETWEEN THE MINISTER FOR SOCIAL WELFARE OF THE ONE PART AND THE MINISTER OF NATIONAL INSURANCE OF THE OTHER PART.

1. For the purposes of this Agreement, the expression " the principal Agreement " means the Agreement made between the Minister of National Insurance and the Minister for Social Welfare dated the 28th February, 1949, and set out in the Schedule to the National Insurance and Industrial Injuries (Reciprocal Agreement with Éire, Mercantile Marine) Order, 1949 (a) and the Schedule to the Social Welfare (Great Britain Reciprocal Arrangements) Order, 1949 (b.)

2. The following Article shall be substituted for Article 4 of the principal Agreement :—

"4. Where any person to whom this Agreement applies is employed on board a ship or vessel whose port of registry is a port in one country and of which the owner (or managing owner if there is more than one owner) resides or has his principal place of business in the other country, then, subject to the provisions of Article 5, in respect of that employment—

(a) if that person is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, the provisions of the Great Britain Acts shall, and those of the Irish Acts shall not, apply to him ;

(b) if that person is ordinarily resident in Ireland the provisions of the Irish Acts shall, and those of the Great Britain Acts shall not, apply to him ; and

(c) if that person is not ordinarily resident in either the United Kingdom or Ireland, the provisions of the Acts in force in the country of the port of registry shall (in so far as they are applicable), and those of the Acts in force in the other country shall not, apply to him."

3. This Agreement shall be read as one with the principal Agreement and shall have effect from 31st March, 1952.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Social Welfare on the day and year first herein appearing.

SÉAMAS Ó RIAIN,

Minister for Social Welfare.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister of National Insurance on the day and year first herein appearing.

OSBERT PEAKE,

Minister of National Insurance.