Payment of injury benefits to teachers by their employers, etc.N.I.
13.—(1) In Article 11 of the Superannuation Order, in paragraph (1) (which requires benefits for teachers to be paid by the Department of Education) for the words from by the Department of Education onwards there shall be substituted the words to or in respect of teachers by the Department of Education or, in the case of injury benefit, by the Department of Education, an employer of teachers or such other person as the Department of Education may consider appropriate and may specify in the regulations .
(2) In paragraph (6) of that Article (interpretation), after the definition of authorised provider inserted by Article 10(4) there shall be inserted the following definition—
“injury benefit means a pension, allowance or gratuity payable under the regulations to or in respect of a teacher in consequence of any injury sustained, or disease contracted, by him in the course of his employment in that capacity;” .