Source: http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2005/act/26/section/71/enacted/en/html
Timestamp: 2020-05-31 04:09:38
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Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005, Section 71
[1993 s50(1)]
71.—(1) Any reference in this Act to insurable (occupational injuries) employment shall, subject to subsections (2) to (11), be read as a reference to any employment for the time being specified in Part 1 of Schedule 1 , not being an employment specified in Part 2 of that Schedule.
[1993 s50(2)]
(2) (a) For the purposes of this section, the following employments shall be taken as being added to the employments specified in Part 1 of Schedule 1 —
(ii) employment under any contract of service or apprenticeship entered into in the State (otherwise than as captain, master or a member of the crew) on board a ship or aircraft, being employment for the purpose of the ship or aircraft or of any passengers or cargo or mails carried by the ship or aircraft, and
(iii) employment in the State as a member or as a person training to become a member of any fire brigade, rescue brigade, first-aid party or salvage party at a factory, mine or works, that may be prescribed, or of any similar organisation that may be prescribed.
(b) In paragraph (a)(ii)—
(ii) any other ship or vessel of which the owner or, where there is more than one owner, the managing owner or manager, resides or has his or her principal place of business in the State;
[1993 s50(3)]
(3) For the purposes of this section, the following employments shall be taken as being added to the employments specified in Part 2 of Schedule 1—
(c) employment under any local or other public authority in the execution of any contract for services,
(d) employment, otherwise than under contract of service, specified in paragraph 10 of Part 1 of Schedule 1.
[1993 s50(4)]
(4) For the purposes of this section, paragraph 2 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 shall be taken as not including employment of a casual nature for the purposes of any work in or about the residence of the employer.
[1993 s50(5)]
(5) For the purposes of this section, a pilot to whom the Pilotage Act 1913 applies, when employed on any ship (within the meaning of subsection (2)(b)), is deemed to be a member of the crew of that ship.
[1993 s50(6)]
(6) The Minister may, in relation to paragraphs 4 and 5 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 , by regulations provide that an employment specified as being subsidiary employment or an employment specified as being of inconsiderable extent shall be taken for the purposes of this section as not being so specified.
[1993 s50(7)]
(7) The Minister may by regulations provide that any specified employment under any local or other public authority shall be taken for the purposes of this section as being added to Part 2 of Schedule 1.
[1993 s50(8)]
(8) Where it appears to the Minister—
(a) that the nature or other circumstances of the service rendered or the work performed in any employment which, apart from this subsection, is insurable (occupational injuries) employment and in any employment which, apart from this subsection, is not such employment (whether by reason of the fact that it is an excepted employment or otherwise) are so similar as to result in anomalies in the operation of this Part, and
the Minister may by regulations provide that the employment shall be so included.
[1993 s50(9)]
(9) The Minister may by regulations modify this Part in its application in the case of persons employed in employments specified in subsection (2)(a)(ii).
[1993 s50(10)]
(10) A person who is unemployed, while in attendance at any course that may be prescribed and provided by any person who may be prescribed, is deemed, for the purposes of this Part, to be in insurable (occupational injuries) employment and to be employed by the person by whom the course is being provided.
[1993 s50(11); 1996 s12(1)(c)]
(11) A person employed under a scheme administered by An Foras Áiseanna Saothair and known as Community Employment is deemed, for the purposes of this Part, to be in insurable (occupational injuries) employment, where the person's employment under that scheme began before 6 April 1996.