Certain employers are exempt from the compulsory insurance requirements of the Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969. Section 3 of the Act exempts: (a) any local authority (other than a parish council); (b) any joint board or committee whose members include representatives of any such local authority; (c) any police authority; (d) any nationalised industry and its subsidiaries; (e) certain bodies financed out of public funds; (f) employers of crews covered by insurance with a mutual insurance association of shipowners.