Workmen's Compensation Act, 1934

Conventions with other States.

70.—Where any Convention providing for reciprocity in matters relating to compensation to workmen for injuries by accident has been entered into by or on behalf of Saorstát

Eireann with any other State, or any Convention providing for reciprocity in matters relating to compensation to workmen for injuries by accident of the International Labour Organisation of the League of Nations has been duly ratified by or on behalf of Saorstát Eireann and any other State, it shall be lawful for the Executive Council by order to make provision in relation to all or any of the following matters—

(a) the modification of this Act in its application to cases affected by such Convention, so, however, as not to alter the amount of the compensation in any case to which this Act may apply;

(b) the determination, in cases where rights to compensation accrue both under this Act and under the law of such other State of the question whether the workman shall be entitled to recover compensation under this Act or under the law of such other State;

(c) the conferring on the Court powers for the admission of evidence taken outside Saorstát Eireann and the procuring and taking of evidence for use outside Saorstát Eireann, or otherwise for the purpose of facilitating proceedings for the recovering of compensation under the respective laws in Saorstát Eireann and such other State.

(2) In particular, but without derogating from the generality of the provisions of the foregoing sub-section, any order made under this section may make such modifications in this Act in its application to workmen who are French citizens as appear to the Executive Council to be necessary to give effect to a Convention (a copy whereof is set out in the Schedule to the Workmen's Compensation (Anglo-French Convention) Act, 1909) signed at Paris on the third day of July, nineteen hundred and nine, and this Act shall apply to such workmen subject to the modifications contained in such order.