Session 2, Contribution

Section 146A of the Local Government Act 1972 (which treats certain other bodies as local authorities for the purposes of specified provisions of Part VII of that Act) is amended as follows.

In subsection (1A)(a), for “139, 140A or 140C” there is substituted “or 139”.

After subsection (1A) there is inserted—

The Receiver may enter into a contract of insurance of class 1 in Part I of Schedule 2 to the Insurance Companies Act 1982 (accident insurance) against risks of any voluntary assistant meeting with a personal accident, whether fatal or not, while engaged as such, or suffering from any disease or sickness, whether fatal or not, as a result of being so engaged.

Any sum received under a contract of insurance made by virtue of subsection (1) shall, after deduction of any expenses incurred in the recovery of the sum, be paid by the Receiver to, or to the personal representatives of, the voluntary assistant who suffered the accident, disease or sickness in respect of which the sum is received or to such other person as the Receiver considers appropriate having regard to the circumstances of the case; and a sum paid to any person other than the assistant or his personal representatives shall be applied by that person in accordance with any directions given by the Receiver for the benefit of any dependant of the voluntary assistant.

The provisions of the Life Assurance Act 1774 shall not apply to any such contract.

Section 119 of the Local Government Act 1972 (payments due to deceased officers) shall apply, subject to the necessary modifications, to any sum which is due from the Receiver by virtue of subsection (2) above and does not exceed the amount for the time being specified in subsection (1) of that section.

In this section—

This Act may be cited as the Police (Insurance of Voluntary Assistants) Act 1997.

This Act extends to England and Wales only.