The Fiji Times, 16 July 2017 – THE Fijian Government’s move to set up the Accident Compensation Bill is to essentially replace, for the time being, at least the existing Motor Vehicle’s Third Party Insurance Act 1948.
Attorney General and Minister for Economy Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum said there were a number of reasons why this Act needed to be repealed and a new provision put in place “essentially to provide the immediate justice to ordinary Fijians who are currently being not covered under the current legal framework”.
“As we have seen that in Fiji, for a number of very basic reasons, people have been over the years denied justice,” Mr Sayed-Khaiyum said. Read more…
