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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Disability Discrimination (Description of Insurance Services) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 14th December 1999.
(2) In these Regulations “employees” means the employer’s employees or a class of his employees.
(3) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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(1) For the purposes of the definition of “insurance services” in section 18(3) of the Act Group Insurance within the meaning of paragraph (2) is hereby prescribed.
(2) “Group Insurance” means an arrangement entered into between an insurer and an employer under which the insurer provides benefits to employees and under which all of the functions described in paragraph (3) below are either:—
(a) under the terms of the arrangement, solely exercisable by the insurer; or
(b) in practice, solely exercised by the insurer.
(3) The functions mentioned in paragraph (2) are:—
(a) the function of determining the criteria which employees will be required to meet in order to be eligible to receive benefits under the arrangement;
(b) the function of determining the extent of the provision or the terms and conditions affecting the provision, of those benefits to the eligible employees; and
(c) the function of determining the effect in individual cases of the application of the criteria for such eligibility or the terms and conditions for receipt of the benefits.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Economic Development on 2nd November 1999.
G. O'Doherty
Assistant Secretary
