Personal Injuries (Compensation Insurance) Act, 1963 (Repealed)

CHAPTER III

PERSONAL INJURIES (COMPENSATION INSURANCE) SCHEME

Personal Injuries (Compensation Insurance) Scheme.

8. (1) The Central Government shall, by notification, put into operation a Scheme to be called the Personal Injuries (Compensation Insurance) Scheme whereby provision is made for all matters necessary to give effect to the purposes of this Act and whereby the Central Government undertakes, in relation to employers of workmen to whom this Act applies, the liabilities of insuring such employers against liabilities incurred by them to workmen under this Act and the Scheme :

[Provided that different schemes shall be put into operation in relation to different periods of emergency.]

(2) The Scheme shall secure that any liability of the Central Government as insurer under the Scheme is determined by a policy of insurance issued in the prescribed form by a person acting on behalf of the Central Government.

(3) The Scheme may provide that it shall come into operation or shall be deemed to have come into operation on such date as may be specified therein.

(4) The Scheme may be amended at any time by the Central Government.

(5) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of sub-section (1), the Scheme may-

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make provisions regulating the payment of the compensation payable under this Act and the Scheme, including provisions for punishment by fine not exceeding two thousand rupees for the contravention of any requirement of the Scheme;