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Mutual arrangements.
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17.—(1) If the Insurance Commissioners and the Joint Committee enter into arrangements—
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(a) for securing continuity of insurance of persons who being insured in Saorstát Eireann or Great Britain are or become resident and employed in Great Britain or Saorstát Eireann as the case may be (including the insurance of men serving in the armed forces of Saorstát Eireann, who previously to enrolment or enlistment in any such forces were resident in Great Britain, and of men who, having so served within six months after their discharge from any such forces, become resident in Great Britain);
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(b) for securing exemption from liability to make contributions in the case of persons who, being ordinarily resident and not insured in Saorstát Eireann, become temporarily employed in Great Britain, or who, being ordinarily resident and not insured in Great Britain, become temporarily employed in Saorstát Eireann;
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(c) with respect to the insurance of persons who, being resident in Saorstát Eireann, are employed either temporarily or permanently in Northern Ireland, or who, being resident in Northern Ireland, are employed either temporarily or permanently in Saorstát. Eireann;
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(d) in the case of a ship registered in Saorstát Eireann or Great Britain, the owner of which resides or has his principal place of business in Great Britain or Saorstát Eireann as the case may be, for determining whether contributions payable in respect of the persons employed on the ship are to be payable under the Acts in their application to the country in which the ship is registered, or under the Acts in their application to the country in which the owner resides or has his principal place of business;
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(e) for rendering insurable persons who in consequence of the establishment of Saorstát Eireann are no longer insurable either under the Acts in their application to Saorstát Eireann or under the Acts in their application to Great Britain;
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the Insurance Commissioners shall with the consent of the Minister for Finance make such Orders as may be necessary to carry out any such arrangements, and may by any such Order make such modifications in the Acts in their application to Saorstát Eireann and to persons resident or employed therein as may be necessary to give effect to the arrangements, and for enabling such financial adjustments to be made as may be necessary or expedient in consequence of any such arrangements:
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Provided that such Order shall not come into force unless and until the Insurance Commissioners are satisfied that reciprocal provisions having the force of law in Great Britain have been made for carrying the arrangements into effect in Great Britain, and shall continue in force only so long as such reciprocal provisions continue to have the force of law in Great Britain.
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(2) An Order under this Section may provide that where an owner of a ship registered in Saorstát Eireann does not reside or have his principal place of business in Saorstát Eireann, the agent in Saorstát Eireann of the owner shall for the purposes of the Acts in their application to Saorstát Eireann be deemed to be the employer of the master and members of the crew of the ship.
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(3) For the purposes of this Section, where there is more than one owner of the ship, the managing owner or manager shall be deemed to be the owner.
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