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Section 140A: Insurance of voluntary assistants of local authorities.

Local Government Act 1972 · 1972 c. 70View on legislation.gov.uk

Part VII: Miscellaneous Powers of Local Authorities

A local authority may enter into a contract of insurance of a relevant class against risks of any voluntary assistant of the authority meeting with a personal accident, whether fatal or not, while engaged as such, or suffering from any disease or sickness, whether fatal or not, as the result of being so engaged.

In this section

a board constituted in pursuance of section 2 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. . .;
the Common Council of the City of London; and
the Council of the Isles of Scilly; and
  • "local authority" includes—

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