NON-PROFIT SCHEMES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26619, 15 November 1947, Page 6

NON-PROFIT SCHEMES

EXEMPTION PROPOSED WORKERS’ COMPENSATION INSURANCE P.A. WELLINGTON. Nov. 14. The intention of the Government to exempt organisations of employers at present carrying their own workers’ compensation insurance, on a nonprofit co-operative basis, from the requirement of the Compensation Amendment Bill to insure with the State Insurance Office was announced to-day by the Minister of Labour. Mr McLagan. He intends to move at the next meeting of the Labour Bills Committee, to which the Bill has been referred, that it be amended accordingly.

Examples of the organisations of employers covered by the proposed exemption were given by the Minister. He said they included the sawmillers (three mutual insurance schemes), the farmers (two mutual schemes) and a scheme operated by the New Zealand Counties’ Association

It was also intended to exempt municipalities and other local bodies carrying their own insurance. Eight municipalities were affected Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Hamilton, Palmerston North, Invercargill and Nelson. Exemption would also apply to schemes operated by the Auckland,, Wellington, Lyttelton

and Otago Harbour Boards. Drainage boards, transport boards, and Government departments that carried their own insurance, the Racing Conference scheme, and the Master Bakers’ Indemnity Association scheme would also come within the scope of the exemption.