Statutory Instruments
2008 No. 1765
Insurance
The Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
Made
4th July 2008
Laid before Parliament
4th July 2008
Coming into force
1st October 2008
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions makes the following Regulations, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 4(2) and 6 of the Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969( 1 ) (including those provisions as applied with any relevant modifications and extensions by regulation 21 of the Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (Management and Administration) Regulations 1995( 2 )).
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 and come into force on 1st October 2008.
Amendment of the Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Regulations 1998
2. —(1)The Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Regulations 1998( 3 ) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 4 (issue of certificates of insurance), omit paragraphs (4) and (5).
(3) In regulation 5 (display and production of copies of certificates of insurance), for paragraphs (1) and (2) substitute—
“ (1) An employer who has been issued with a certificate under regulation 4 must display one or more copies of it at each place of business at which he employs any relevant employee of the class or description to which such certificate relates.
(2) The requirements in paragraph (1) will be satisfied if the certificate is made available in electronic form and each relevant employee to whom it relates has reasonable access to it in that form. ” .
(4) In regulation 6(b) (production of certificates of insurance to an inspector) omit “and retained by him in accordance with regulation 4(4) above”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
William D McKenzie
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department for Work and Pensions
4th July 2008
S.I. 1995/738 . This applies the 1969 Act to certain employees employed for work on or from offshore installations or associated structures, in the course of activities undertaken on or in connection with such installations, with modifications and extensions.