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Cook Islands Workers Compensation Ordinance Amendment Act 1965

COOK ISLANDS

Cook Islands Workers Compensation Ordinance Amendment Act 1965

No. 3, 1965

ANALYSIS

1. Short Title
2. Act to be read with Cook Islands Workers Compensation Ordinance 1964.
3. Certain payments by employer not to be taken into account in fixing periodical payments
4. No abatement of Compensation on account of insurance money or friendly society payments.

An Act to Amend the Cook Islands Workers Compensation Ordinance 1964 to Ensure Full Payment of Compensation Notwithstanding the Receipt of Other Moneys or Benefits.

(14 January 1966

BE IT ENACTED by the Legislative Assembly of the Cook Islands in Session assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. Short Title –

This Act may be cited as the Cook Islands Workers Compensation Ordinance Amendment Act 1965.

2. Act to be read with Cook Islands Workers Compensation Ordinance 1964 –

This Act shall be read together with and deemed part of the Cook Islands Workers Compensation Ordinance 1964. (In this Act referred to as the Ordinance).

3. Certain payments by employer not to be taken into account in fixing periodical payments –

Subsection 2 of Section 9 of the Ordinance is hereby repealed.

4. No abatement of Compensation on account of insurance money or friendly society payments –

The Ordinance is hereby amended by inserting after Section 9 the following section:/ /

9A. In assessing Compensation no account shall be taken of:
(a) Any money accruing to the claimant in respect of any life or accident insurance policy effected by himself or by any other person
(b) In the case of-a claim by or on behalf of a partial dependant of a deceased worker, any gain whether to the estate of the deceased worker or to that dependant that is consequent on the death of the deceased worker
(c) Any money payable by or to a friendly society or other organisation.