COMPENSATION BILL

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22335, 24 February 1938, Page 10

COMPENSATION BILL

LOSS OF EXPECTATION OF LIFE PRESENTATION THIS SESSION DOUBTFUL fFrom Our Parliamentary Reporter.! WELLINGTON, February 23. It is not yet known whether legislation will be brought down this coming session of Parliament to deal with the situation which has arisen over claims being maeje for loss of expectation of life. A bill has apparently been drafted by the Attorney-General (the -Hoh. H. G. R. Masoh). who said 10-day that the mpttef rested with the Prime Minister, who had charge of the legislative programme. Section 3 (1) of the Law Reform Act, in abolishing the principle that a personal action ceases with the death of the person,- except in regard tp thf®.® special causes of action, provides that oil thfe dfeath of any person all the Causes of action subsisting against or vested in him shall survive against, or as the case may be; for the benefit ot His,estate. The “New Zealand Law Journal stated recently that It had bfeeli ihtbfmed last OfctObef that the AttornfeyGfehetal proposed Intrbducirig ah afriendrrieriC and that a bill had already been drafted. , Mr Mason said yesterday that the session had been adjourned for only orife purpose—for consideration of the national superannuation scheme, and what other work would be got in was hot tor him to say. . , ‘‘Thfe Efiriie Minister is in chargfe of the order paper, and it is riot for me to say What will be placed on it for consideration,” Mr ■ Mason said.