SPORTING INJURIES INSURANCE ACT 1978 - SECT 18
Failure of organisation to pay premiums
SPORTING INJURIES INSURANCE ACT 1978 - SECT 18
Failure of organisation to pay premiums
18 Failure of organisation to pay premiums
(1) Where any premium required by a notice served on a sporting organisation
under section 17 (1) to be paid to the Authority on or before the due day for
payment of the premium has not been paid to the Authority on or before 30 June
next following that due day, then, while it is unpaid, paragraph (d) of the
definition of
"worker" in section 4 (1) of the Workplace Injury Management and Workers
Compensation Act 1998 , as in force for the time being, does not apply and
shall be deemed not to have applied to or in respect of any person who, but
for that paragraph, would be a worker within the meaning of that Act while he
or she is, or was at any time during the year commencing with 1 July
immediately preceding that 30 June and ending with that 30 June, participating
in any authorised activity of the organisation or doing anything that,
although not such an authorised activity, is or was done in connection with,
or related to, such an authorised activity, and the organisation shall be
deemed to be, or to have been, his or her employer at that time, as the case
may require.
(2) Where any premium required by a notice served on a
sporting organisation under section 17 (1) to be paid to the Authority on or
before the due day for payment of the premium is unpaid, a person who suffers
an injury while participating in an authorised activity of the organisation
during the period specified in the notice as the period with respect to which
the premium is payable is not, for the purposes of section 19 (1) or (2) or 27
(1), a registered participant of the organisation until the premium is paid
but, if the premium is paid before the end of that period, whether before, on
or after that due day, any person who would, if this subsection had not been
enacted, have been a registered participant of the organisation at a time
occurring during that period but before payment of the amount shall, for the
purposes of sections 19 (1) and (2) and 27 (1), be treated as if he or she had
been a registered participant of the organisation at that time.
