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Blair v General Steam Navigation Company

Irish Law Times Reports (Digests) Cited authorities 3 Cited in Precedent Map Related
Vincent
JurisdictionNorthern Ireland
Judgment Date01 January 1940
Date01 January 1940
CourtRecorder’s Court (Northern Ireland)
(Rec. Ct., N.I.),
Blair
and
General Steam Navigation Company

-Seaman - Injury and death caused by war injury - Whether Workmen's Compensation Acts apply - Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1939 (English Statutes) (2 3 Geo. VI, c. 82), s. 3 (1) (a) -Pensions (Navy, Army, Air Force and Mercantile Marine) Act, 1939 (2 3 Geo. VI, c. 83), s. 3 (1) (a) - Naval (War Pensions) Order.

The applicants were sisters of a deceased ordinary seaman, who had been employed on board the S.S. "Abukir" and who had been drowned when that vessel was sunk by enemy action. Held, that the provisions of the Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1939, a statute applying to Northern Ireland, excluded claims for compensation under the Workmen's Compensation Acts in such a case.

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