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ll9TH MAY, 1977 THE OFFICIAL GAZETTE LEGAL SUPPLEMENT - C 77 I BILL No.

11 of 1977 NATIONAL INSURANCE.

AND SOCIAL SECURITY (AMENDMENT) BILL 1977 ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS SECTION: 1.

Short , title and commencement.

2.

Amendment of the Principal Act.

78 THE OFFICIAL GAZETTE LEGAL SUPPLEMENT - C 119TH MAY, 1977 A BILL Intituled AN ACT to amend the National Act.

Insurance and Social Security Enacted - by the Parliament of Guyana:- Shor� itlitle and COOD• ID'ell,CelID.e!llllA Ca'p.
36:01 1.This Act, which amends the N ationaJ.

Social Security Act, may be cited as the National and Social Security into operation aipprove.

on such date as the Mi'Illister (Amendment) Act 1977, aind shall come · :may by order Insurance and 1 Insurance Amiendment Of !
:he Pnilnicipaa Act, 2.Every reference 1 in the Principal Aot and in the made thereunder Regulations years to the age of sixty-five (being the maximum ag·e to which a person gainfully ployed is required ,to be insured or the minimum ag-e giving rise to the payment of an old age or survivor's caise may be, or the age disquaJ.ifying validity effeeit or sickness benefit) shall be construed to the age orf sixty years .
as a reference the payment of an in­ as the benefit, and have em­ ' .. EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM The Aict requires persons sixte,en yeairs or over and under sixty-five years of age, who are gainfully age is one of the qualifying viv:or', persons the _payment dritef\ia to 0laimants of invalidity dase, whereas in the latter s benefit applying and si.clmess employed to be insured under it.

That for the payment of Old Ag1e or.


Sur­ in the former and to deceased insured of it is the disqu�ltifying age in respect benefits.

This Bill 1seeks to redut� the a� limit of stixty-five years to sixty for the pµrpose of the above-mentioned benefits.

(Bil11: No.

11/1977).

ll) (68/34 Hamilton Green, Minister of Labour.