| Short Title: | National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1946 |
| Type: | Act |
| Parliament: | Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Long Title: | An Act to substitute for the Workmen's Compensation Acts, 1925 to 1945, a system of insurance against personal injury caused by accident arising out of and in the course of a person's employment and against prescribed diseases and injuries due to the nature of a person's employment, and for purposes connected therewith. |
| Year: | 1946 |
| Citation: | 9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 62 |
| Royal Assent: | 26 July 1946 |
The National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 62) was a British Act of Parliament which provided compensation paid by the Ministry of National Insurance to workers who were left injured or disabled as a result of work-related accidents. The Act replaced the Workmen's Compensation Acts.[1]
The Act was universal, in the sense that it covered the entire workforce. It provided injury benefit for six months, disability benefit for the permanently injured, and a death benefit for dependents. Tribunals were set up to assess cases rather than the burden of proving a case resting on the claimant, although claims still remained hard to prove.[2]
The Act's limitation of the right to appeal was considered in R v Medical Appeal Tribunal, ex p Gilmore[3] where Lord Denning decided that the provision limiting appeal does not mean that the judiciary cannot review decisions.[4]