DENMARK. 



IvATEST RESUI.TS OF THE I^AW ON AGRICULTURAL 

 ACCIDENT INSURANCE. 



OFFICIAI, SOURCES: 



Beretning fra Arbejderforsikringsraadets I^andnbrugsafdelning for Aaret 1912 

 {Report of the Agricultural Division of the Labourers' Insurance Council for 1912). 

 Copenhagen, 19 13. 



§ I. — Compulsory and voi^untary insurance. 



We have already dealt in this Bulletin (June, iQii) with the organis- 

 ation of agricultural accident insurance in Denmark and given (October, 

 1912) some statistical information as to the results obtained in the years 

 1910 and 1911. 



The Agricultural Division of the Labourers' Insurance Council at 

 Copenhagen has just pubUshed a voluminous report of more than 300 pages 

 on the results for 1912. We shall briefly summarise it. 



Let r.s first of all remember that the law of May 27th., 1908 allows 

 of two forms of agricultural accident insurance, compulsory and voluntary. 



Insurance is compulsory, on the one hand, for labourers engaged in agri- 

 culture, forestry work and horticulture, provided that the holdings on which 

 they work have a \-alue as shown in the cadastre (i) :i more than 6,000 

 crs. (2), exclusive of the live or dead stock and, on the < ther hand, for all 

 labourers employed in stud farms, in working dairies, peat moss bogs 

 or reed banks and in working threshing machines, as well as all those 

 engaged in any business auxiliary to the above classes of work. By the 

 Ministerial Decree of January ist., 1910 and January 23 d., 1912, the law 

 has been made appUcable to labourers occupied in marlpits, in the control 

 of dairies, livestock improvement etc. 



It is the employer who must insure his workmen (art. 21 of the law). 



Insurance is voluntary (art. 25 of the law) for rural landowners and farm 

 managers, provided the value of the holdings as shown in the cadastre is 



(t) See the article: "The Establishment of the Cadastre in Denmark ", published in 

 the number of this Bulletin for June 1912. 

 (2) The Danish crown is worth i fr. 39. 



