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12TH Aue., 1989 THE OFFICIAL GAZETTE LEGAL SuPPLEMENT - B 277 GUYANA No.

24 of 1989 REGULATIONS Made Under THE NA'I'IONAL INSURANCE AND SOCIAL SECURITY ACT (Cap.

36:01) IN EXERCISE OF THE POWERS CONFERRED UPON THE MINISTER BY SECTIONS 12, 14, 20, 21, 23, 24, 39 and 51 OF THE NATIONAL INSURANCE AND SOCIAL SECURITY ACT, I HEREBY MAKE THE FOLLOWING REGULATIONS:- 1.These Regulations, which amend the National Insurance Cttat.fon.
(Industrial Benefit) Regulations*, may be Security and Social cited as the National Benefit) (Amendment) and Social Insurance Regulations 1989.

Security (Industrial .

f 11 0 owrng respects 2.

The Principal - Regulations are hereby amended in the Amendment of the Prln- cipat Regu- 1auoo.s.

(1) in regulation 2(1) - (a)in_ th� definition of "relevant wage", by the sub­ stltut10n out" and ending "relevant words - the following for the words commencing "amount accident occured" set of Legislation *Cap.
36:01 Subsidiary .
278 THE OFFICIAL GAZETIE LEGAL SUPPLEMENT - I3 12TH Aue., 1989 are on which contributions are awanied or on which "total earnings paid or credJts are paid and credits are awarded contributions during the last eight weeks out of the total preceding weeks immediately of thirteen week in which the accid�nt by eight or in the case where the person had contributed vant wage" shall be defined earnings on which credits contributions during the period immedi:.ttely week in which the accident by the number of weeks in that period"; for less than eight weeks, '·rele­ as the totJ.l on which contributions were paid or or on which were awarded were paid Jnd credits nwardcd preceding the divided the divided occured, occured (b) in the proviso to the definition wage", of "relevant by the substitution "there shall be" and ending "average person" insured have the same meaning wage of the of the words "relevant as average wage"; for the words commencing wage shall (c)by the substitution group" of the following alphabetical order - of "wage for the definition in its correct definition means the income on income" ' "insurable which contributions person and is delimited determined statutory minimum wage;'; with reference are paid by the insured to an income range to the existing (2)in regulation commencing words "seventy 7(1), by the sub3titution "the sum" and �nding per cent of the relevant "wage falls" of the wage"; for the words (3)in regulation 10 - {a) in paragraph by the substitution, words "of the amount as pr0vided the
 First Schedule" of which shall be two hundred ty per cent of the relevant degree of disablement"; (1), for the in Part III of the words "the amount of and sixty times seven weekly wage for such (b) by the deletion, specified Schedule"; in paragraph (2) of the words as in column 5 of Part' 1 of the First 12TH AUG., 1989 THE OFFICIAL GAZETTE LEGAL SuPPLE!\lENT - B �79 24(1) - (4)in regulation ta) by the insertion, in the pro\·iso, subparagraph after subpara­ as sub­ graph '(c) of the following paragraph ( d) -
 "(d) nothing in this regulation clude the payment of old age pension with disablement pension;"; shall ·pre­ (b)by the numbering of subparagraph (d) as sub­ paragraph (e); (5) in the First Schedule - (a) by the deletion of Part 1 2nd Part III; in Part II, for the word it occurs of the words "Thirty­ (b) by the substitution, "Thirty" wherever five", the words "Eleven "Sixty" wherever for the words "Fifteen "TwentY-three vant wage"; and one-third for the word "Ten" wherever and tw::i-thirds'', it occurs of the word "Seventy" it occurs of for the word dollars" of the words per cent of the rele­ (6)in the Second Schedule, by the insertion 1, after the words "right-handed "where the disablement or over", and after the words the words "where the disablement teen per at fifteen "left-handed of at fif­ is assessed is assessed cent or over".
person", in paragraph of the words per cent person" Made this 27th day of July, 1989.

Carl B. Greenidge, Minister o( Fi11:in ce