Notwithstanding Section 1851.1, a workers’ compensation insurance rating organization licensed pursuant to the provisions of this article which does not make rates, rating plans or rating systems for insurance covering employers against their liability for compensation or damages under the United States Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act (33 U.S.C. 901, et seq.) shall not be required to be licensed as a rating organization or registered as an advisory organization pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 1850) of Part 2 of Division 1, and shall have authority under its license as a workers’ compensation insurance rating organization issued pursuant to this article to:

(a) Collect and tabulate loss and expense experience statistics and other information and data relating to insurance covering employers against their liability for compensation under the United States Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act.

(b) Furnish or exhange such information and experience data to or with rating organizations, advisory organizations and insurers in this and other states.

(c) Adopt and enforce compliance by its insurer members with reasonable rules and statistical plans to be used in the recording and reporting by insurer members of their California longshoremen and harbor workers’ insurance loss and expense experience in order that such experience of all of its insurer members shall be available in such form and detail as will be of aid to the commissioner in the enforcement of and to its insurer members in complying with the provisions of Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 1850) of Part 2 of Division 1.

(d) Engage in the same activities and carry out the same functions with respect to insurance covering the liability of employers for compensation or damages under the United States Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act that it is authorized to engage in or carry out with respect to California workers’ compensation insurance generally under the provisions of this article other than the making of rates, rating plans and rating systems.

(Added by Stats. 1978, Ch. 813.)