National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1946
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| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act to substitute for the Workmen's Compensation Acts, 1925 to 1945, a system of insurance against personal injury caused by accident arising out of and in the course of a person's employment and against prescribed diseases and injuries due to the nature of a person's employment, and for purposes connected therewith. |
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| Citation | 9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 62 |
| Territorial extent | [b] |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 26 July 1946 |
| Commencement | 23 January 1948[c] |
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Status: Repealed | |
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The National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 62) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which provided compensation paid by the Ministry of National Insurance to workers who were left injured or disabled as a result of work-related accidents. The act replaced the Workmen's Compensation Acts.[1]
The act was universal, in the sense that it covered the entire workforce. It provided injury benefit for six months, disability benefit for the permanently injured, and a death benefit for dependents. Tribunals were set up to assess cases rather than the burden of proving a case resting on the claimant, although claims still remained hard to prove.[2]
The act's limitation of the right to appeal was considered in R v Medical Appeal Tribunal, ex p Gilmore[3] where Lord Denning decided that the provision limiting appeal does not mean that the judiciary cannot review decisions.[4]
