PART VII

Mariners and Aircraft Personnel

 

Regulations for mariners and aircraft personnel

 

    68. The Minister may make Regulations modifying this Part of the Act, in such manner as he or she thinks proper in its application to persons who are or have been employed on board any ship, vessel, or aircraft, and such Regulations may in particular provide for -

 

(a) this Part to apply to such persons, notwithstanding that it would not otherwise apply;

 

(b) exempting such persons from the application of this Part when they are neither domiciled nor have a place of residence in Saint Lucia;

 

(c) requiring the payment of contributions in respect of such persons, whether or not they are (within the meaning of this Act) insured persons;

(d) taking of evidence, for the purposes of any claim to benefit in a country or territory outside Saint Lucia, by a consular official or such other person as may be prescribed;

 

(e) enabling persons who are or have been so employed to authorise the payment of the whole or part of any benefit to which they are or may become entitled to such of their dependants as may be prescribed;

 

(f) withholding any benefit that may be payable to a mariner or aircraft personnel for any period during which the owner of the ship or vessel is under a statutory or contractual obligation to pay his or her wages;

 

(g) treating as accidents arising out of and in the course of the employment of a mariner or aircraft personnel, accidents happening while he or she is proceeding to or from a ship, vessel or aircraft or in any other prescribed circumstances;

 

(h) the payment of employment injury benefit to or in respect of mariners and aircraft personnel from accidents happening and prescribed diseases developed while they are outside Saint Lucia; and

 

(i) treating as insured persons under this Act, persons who are or have been employed on board a ship, vessel or aircraft notwithstanding that they do not fulfil the prescribed conditions for entitlement to benefit under this Act.

Regulations re wives or widows of mariners and aircraft personnel

 

    69. The Minister may make Regulations to provide -

 

(a) for granting any benefit under this Act to a married person whose spouse sustains injuries or fatalities whilst working on board any ship, vessel or aircraft;

 

(b) for modifying the provisions of this Act in their application to persons who are or have been outside Saint Lucia at any prescribed time or in any prescribed circumstances;

 

(c) that where an insured person is throughout any contribution period outside Saint Lucia and is not in that period an insured person he shall not be liable to pay any contributions as an insured person for such period.