Social Welfare (Occupational Injuries) Act, 1966

Repeals.

40.—Workmen's compensation under the Workmen's Compensation Acts, 1934 to 1955, as amended by Part V of the Civil Liability Act, 1961 , shall not be payable in respect of any employment on or after the appointed day, and accordingly the Workmen's Compensation Acts, 1934 to 1955, and Part V of the Civil Liability Act, 1961 , are hereby repealed as from that day:

Provided that—

(a) those Acts shall continue to apply to cases to which they would have applied if this Act had not been passed, being cases where a right to compensation arises or has arisen in respect of employment before the appointed day, except where, in the case of a disease or injury prescribed for the purposes of section 23 of this Act, the right does not arise before the appointed day and the workman, before it does arise, has been insured under this Act against that disease or injury;

(b) the repeal of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1934 , shall not affect any rules of court made under that Act or the power to make new rules of court for the purposes of that Act; and

(c) the repeal of subsection (1) of section 13 of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1934 , shall not affect the application of the Acts repealed by that Act or by the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906, to cases to which by virtue of that subsection they are to continue to apply.