Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1990, published 77th ILC session (1990)

Workmen's Compensation (Accidents) Convention, 1925 (No. 17) - Isle of Man

The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

In its earlier comments the Committee has asked the Government to state whether, and if so under which provisions, the aid prescribed by Articles 9 and 10 of the Convention are guaranteed free of cost to the victims of occupational accidents. The Government stated in its reply that since 1979 the Isle of Man Health Services Board, which deals with exemptions from medical charges, deals also with cases relating to occupational accidents, which it does in agreement with the Isle of Man Board of Social Security.

Although these arrangements appear to ensure that the aid prescribed by these provisions of the Convention is furnished free of cost, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would take the necessary measures to give statutory effect to this practice so that the right of the workers concerned to receive the aid prescribed free of cost shall be recognised, as provided by the Convention. The Committee also asks the Government to furnish the text of any provision in laws or regulations adopted for the purpose.