S.I. No. 80/1967 - Social Welfare (Insurable (Occupational Injuries) Employment) Regulations, 1967.

S.I. No. 80 of 1967.

SOCIAL WELFARE (INSURABLE (OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES) EMPLOYMENT) REGULATIONS, 1967.

I, JOSEPH BRENNAN, Minister for Social Welfare, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 3 of the Social Welfare Act, 1952 (No. 11 of 1952) and section 3 of the Social Welfare (Occupational Injuries) Act, 1966 (No. 16 of 1966). hereby make the following Regulations :—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Insurable (Occupational Injuries) Employment) Regulations, 1967.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of May, 1967.

3. In these Regulations, " the Act of 1966 " means the Social Welfare (Occupational Injuries) Act, 1966 .

4. The following employment shall be taken as employment for the purposes of subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section 3 of the Act of 1966 :—

Employment in the State as a member or a person training to become a member of any fire brigade, rescue brigade, first-aid party or salvage party at any factory or premises to which any of the provisions of the Factories Act, 1955 (No. 10 of 1955), applies, or at any mine or quarry to which any of the provisions of the Mines and Quarries Act, 1965 (No. 7 of 1965), applies, in any case in which such organisation is established in pursuance of an obligation imposed under statute or by or with the consent of the owner or occupier of any such factory, premises, mine or quarry.

5. For the purposes of section 3 of the Act of 1966, any employment specified in regulations made under paragraph 5 of Part II of the First Schedule to the Social Welfare Act, 1952 , as being of such a nature that it is ordinarily adopted as subsidiary employment only and not as the principal means of livelihood shall be taken as not being so specified.

6. For the purposes of section 3 of the Act of 1966, any employment specified in regulations made under paragraph 6 of Part II of the First Schedule to the Social Welfare Act, 1952 , as being employment of inconsiderable extent shall be taken as not being so specified.

7. For the purposes of paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of section 3 of the Act of 1966, employment as a member of the crew of a fishing vessel where the employed person is wholly remunerated by a share in the profits or the gross earnings of the working of the vessel shall be wholetime where the person so employed either during the twelve months immediately preceding the commencement of that employment has, or would but for his being unemployed or incapable of work have, been wholly or mainly engaged in, and derived his livelihood wholly or mainly from, such employment or may reasonably be expected so to be engaged and so to derive his livelihood during the twelve months following the commencement of that employment.

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 24th day of April, 1967.

JOSEPH BRENNAN,

Minister for Social Welfare.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These Regulations provide for the addition to Part I of the First Schedule to the Social Welfare Act, 1952 , of certain categories of employment as insurable (occupational injuries) employment for the purposes of Section 3 of the Social Welfare (Occupational Injuries) Act, 1966 .