The National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 62) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom 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.Mastering Economic and Social History by David Taylor
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.
The act's limitation of the right to appeal was considered in R v Medical Appeal Tribunal, ex p Gilmore 1 QB 574 where Lord Denning decided that the provision limiting appeal does not mean that the judiciary cannot review decisions.
Subsequent developments The whole act except sections 6, 71, 89 and 90 and schedule 9, and in section 90, paragraphs (a) to (h), was repealed by section 1(1) of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision (Consequential Repeals) Act 1965, which came into force on 6 September 1965.
The whole act, so far as unrepealed, was repealed by section 1(2) of, and part I of schedule 1 to, the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1975, which came into force on 6 April 1975.
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