State Government Insurance Office Act Amendment Act 1945 (WA)

STATE GOVERNMENT INSURANCE

OFFICE.

9° and 10° GEO. VI., No. XXIII.

No. 23 of 1945.

AN ACT to amend sections two and four of the State

Government Insurance Office Act, 1938-1943.

[Assented to 9th January, 1946.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty,by' and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

Short title.	1. This Act may be cited as the State Government
Cf. No. 29 of

1943, e. 3.	Insurance Office Act Amendment Act, 1945, and shall be
read as one with the State Government Insurance Office Act, 1938-1943 (No. 39 of 1938, as amended by the Act No. 29 of 1943), hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

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2. Section two of the principal Act is amended as Mendment of

follows :—

(a) By inserting immediately above the definition of

"Insurance business" a new definition as follows:

"Friendly Society" means a friendly society regis- tered under the Friendly Societies Act, 1894- 1939.

(b) By inserting in the definition of "Insurance business" after paragraph (b1) a new paragraph as follows :-

(b2) In relation to all classes of insurable risks in respect of which local authorities and friendly societies ordinarily require and obtain insurance, as and whenever any local authorities or any friendly societies apply to the State Government Insurance Office for such insurance. Provided that

(i)    the insurance business authorised by this paragraph shall be undertaken only with local authorities or with friendly societies as the case may be; and

(ii)    such insurance business may be undertaken only with a number of local authorities or a number of friendly societies (as the case may be) seeking the same conjointly pursu- ant to a pool or other scheme mutually arranged between such local authorities or between such friendly societies as the case may be and with the State Government In- surance Office.

(c) By adding at the end of the definition of "In-

surance business" a paragraph as follows :-

(d) The term also includes acting as agent in this State for and on behalf of any State insurance office or department of any other State of the Common- wealth being carried on as an activity or undertaking of such other State under the laws thereof, when requested so to do by such insurance office or depart- ment in connection with any of the insurance busi- ness carried on by that insurance office or depart- ment.

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(d) by inserting after the definition of "Insurance

business" new definitions as follows :—

"Local authority" includes a municipal council, a road board, a local authority within the meaning of the Health Act, 1911-1944, a vermin board, a water board, the board of management of a hospital within the meaning of the Hospitals Act, 1927, and any other statutory board which the Governor by Order in Council declares to be a local authority for the purposes of this Act. "Manager" means the person appointed by the

Governor to be the manager of the State Govern- ment Insurance Office under and for the pur- poses of this Act.

Amendment of 3. Section four of the principal Act is amended as

follows :-

(a)	by deleting from subsection (1) the words "State Government Actuary" in the last line of the subsection, and inserting in lieu thereof the word "Manager";
(b)	by inserting after subsection (1) a new subsec-

tion as follows :—

(la) The Governor may under and in accordance with the provisions of the Public Service Act, 1904-1935, appoint a person to be the Manager of the State Government Insur- ance Office. The officer at the time of the commencement of this subsection already appointed and acting as Manager of the said State Government Insurance Office shall be deemed to have been so appointed under this subsection.

(c) By deleting from subsection (2) the words "State Government Actuary" in line four of the said subsection and inserting in lieu there- of the word "Manager."

Citation of

orincii al Act 4. The principal Act as amended by this Act may he

as amended cited as the State Government Insurance Office Act, 1939-