State Government Insurance Office Act Amendment Act 1954 (WA)

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STATE GOVERNMENT INSURANCE

OFFICE.

3° Elizabeth II., No. LVIII.

No. 58 of 1954.

AN ACT to amend the State Government

Insurance Office Act, 1938-1952.

[Assented to 30th December, 1954.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of

the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title

and citation.	1. (1) This Act may be cited as the State Government Insurance Office Act Amendment Act, 1954.
(2) In this Act the State Government Insurance Office Act, 1938-1952,

Act No. 39 of 1938 as amended by Acts Nos.

29 of 1943, 23 of 1945 and 52 of 1952,

is referred to as the principal Act.

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(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the State Government Insurance Office Act, 1938-1954.

2. Section two of the principal Act is amended uncle&

by inserting in the interpretation "Insurance business" after paragraph (b2) a paragraph as follows:

(b3) indemnifying the parent or guardian of a child or a person enrolled at a university as an undergraduate against moneys paid by him or on his behalf in respect of medicines, medical or surgical requisites, medical, surgical, dental, optical, hospital nursing or other necessary treatment supplied or given to the child or the person or services of whatever description, includ- ing first aid, ambulance or other transport service to carry the child or the person to a place of treatment, where the moneys are so paid as a result of the child or the person suffering bodily injury by accident whilst he is

(i)    attending a school or a university in which he is enrolled as a pupil or as an undergraduate, whether for the purpose of receiving instruction at the school or the university or attend- ing a sport, activity or other enter- tainment organised by the school or the university authorities; or

(ii)    travelling to and from his place of abode to the school or the university or other place for the purpose of receiving instruction, attending a sport, activity, or other entertain- ment organised by the school or the university authorities at the school or the university or place, as the case may be;

and where death results from the injury the moneys so paid for the burial of the child or the person. In this paragraph "child" means a person under the age of twenty-one years.