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137 No.

22 of 1969 THE NATIONAL INSURANCE AND SOCIAL SECURITY ACT, 1969.

THE NATIONAL INSURANCE AND SOCIAL SECURITY REGULATIONS, OF CONTRIBUTIONS) (COLLECTION 1969.

In the e�rci!-e of the powers conferred upon the Minister 13, 16, 17, 18 and 51 of the National and by virtue by sections Social Security Act, 1969, powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby made:- the following Insurance of an other Regulations and in exiercise and arP.

• 1.
• 1.

These Regulations md Social Security ( Collection and shall come w.to operation on the appointed Re!

!Ulations may be cited as the National of Contributions) day.

Insurance Citation and men .

1969 com,mence- • ci , PRELIMINARY 2.

In these Regulations ooless the conrext otherwise I,,:iterpreta.

uon.

requires - "the Aot" means the National Insurance and Social fg�9 15 of Act, 1969; week" mean,s a Security "contrihntion mencin!!

each Sundav an<l endin!!


at twelve o'clock Sunday next following; persnn's period of seven davs com­ on on contrihution'' after twe1ve o'clock means that nart of the mid-ni!

!ht m.id-ni!
!ht m.id-ni!

!ht immediatelv � • "emnloved contrihntion n�id hv the emnlover ::inrl recoverahle these Regulations from the wages of the employed under person· means an inspector designated under section "insnf'ctnr" 31 of the Act; "local office" means an office aonoinlted a local office for the purpose of the Act: by the Board as threse Re!

!lllations: means the dav on which such come� to an end.
whether with the term� of the con­ or not the employment is to means the Schedule to of emnlovment" act1rnllv is in accnnlnnce "Schedule" "terminatinn the emnl<wment termination tract or nnt and whether be resumed at a later date; "wa!

!e QTrn.m" means a !

!Tonn snecified of the Schedul<" together specified in rel::itinn thereto columns of the Schedule.

in the second and third with the classification of waQ'ec; in the first column 3.

Anv notice.

ised or required Regulations may be sent by post.


to be given.

contribution card or certificate served, issued or delivered :�1ci:c that is author-- under these t� by etc.

138 PART I Application for contri• butlon card.

1b;110°I c:~~: ~ CONTRIBUTION CARDS 4.


( 1) Each employer shall, on or before the appointed day, forthwith present to the Director in respect of each person ~mployed by him an application for a contribution card on the appropnate form (2) Each person becoming an employer after the appointed day shall forthwi,tlh gh~ notic:oe thereof to the Director.
(3) If an employer employs any person for whom a contri~u tion card has not previously been issued, the employer shall forthwith present to the Director an application on the appropriate form for a contribution card in respect of such person.
( 4) Each employee shall supply the personal particulars neces .. sary for the completion of the appropriate form of application for the contribution card, shail be responsible for the correctness of the personal particulars and shall affix his signature to that part of tthe form provided therefor.

5.

( I J If upon receipt of an application for a contribution card the Director is satisfied that the applicant is entitled to be iinsured, he shall cause a contribution card to be i'9Sued to the employer.
(2) Where a person in respect of whom a contribution card has already been issued hecomes employed in another establishment, the new employer shall forthwith apply to the local office for the contribution card of that person.

PMIII of c:ontribullon card.

6.

A contribution card shall be in such form as the Board may direct and shall be current for a period of one year or for such other period as the Boiud may determine.

rc,~ f!

:ae , c:ontdbutlon° in respect of a person properly applying therefor.
c:ard.

7.

A contribution card shall be issued without charge to or Custody of contrlblltion card.

8.

( 1) The employer on receiving the contribution card of an insured person shall becom\'?

responsible for its custody so Jong a.~ the employment continues or until the contribution card is returned or delivered to the Director or retained hy an inspector in accordance with mese or any other Regulations.
During that period the employer shall produce it for inspection at any reasonable time when requi~d to do so hy an inspector and.

if so required, shall deliver up the same to the inspector who may if he thinks fit 'fetain it.

The inspector shall give a receipt for any contribution card retained by him.

(2) The Director shall issue v.hiere appropriate a contribution card to replace any rootribution card retained by him.

De11ruc:tion or loll of c:ontriblltion card.

9.


If a contribution card is destroyed or lost or is defaced in any material particular while in the custody of the employer, the employer shall forthwith report the matter to the Director and apply 139 for the issue of a contribution card to replace the card which has been destroyed, lost or defaced, and shall obtain such card in such manner as the Director may decide.

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10.

Every employer having the custody in accordance with :C,~~?~n these Regulations of the contribuition card of an insured person shall ~!

:d b:e!~ permit that person to have access to such card for the purpose of signing the card and inserting his then present address in accordano~ with Regulation 14.

In addition, and wdthout prejudice to rthis right, if an insured person desires t<:.'
inspect his contribution card while it is in the custody of the employer, the employer shall give him a rea- sonable opportunity of so doing either within or immediately before or after working hours.

Provided that no insured person .sthall be eootled by virtue of this regulation to inspect his contribution card more than once in any one month nor except at such time as may be fixed by the employer for the purpose.

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11.

Ji tlhe employment of an ini;ured person ends during the ::;~au'f!a Period of currency of the contribution card, the employer shall send card on m mination ot the card to the local office within tv,·o days of the termination of employment.

employment : Provided that where the employment is terminated by th~ insured person without any notice or intimation to the employer, the time there after within which action as aforesaid shall be taken shall be extended to fourteen da yiS.

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13. .
12.

13. .

perty of the Board.

A contribution card, when issued, s'hall remain the pro- contribution ~:fn ~ro-rc- 1111n, of Board.

Within seven days or such longer period as the Director &cl:h1t~",g1oe or all .al case ft may m any spec1 cards cease to be current, the empldyer shall rt:turn the cards to the Director and the Director shall thereupon issue Ito him a fresh con tribution card for the ensuing period in respect of every insured person then in his employment.
ow a er th d e ate on w vu contn ut1on card,.

hi-'- .b .

con IU D 14.

Every insured person shall within four weeks before sur- eo~1rlb11Uonllf render of his contribution card pursuant to Regulation 13 sign the card ~~:d t~ and inSert thereon his then present address in the respectiv~ places ~~~e lllll're• indicated for those pu1poses on the card.

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· 15.

'b t ' On the death of an insured person, the employer if the Delivery of d contribution contn u 10n car 1s t en m 1s custo y, or any the possession or thereafter obtaining possession of the insured person's ~uec;r hon 1 1 contribution card, shall forthwith deliver it to the Director.

per~ er person havmg card d · h · h• oth .

to 1n:Ure/ SOD.

16.


The Director may, in his discretion, exchange a current Exchanac of contrihution card for a fresh contribution card at any time and in a c:;::_r1but1on manner other than that prescribed in these Regulatioos.

c 140 PART Il PAYMENT OF CONTRIBUTIONS Rates of in- surance con- trlbutions.
17 ( 1) For each period for which an insured person is oaid wages, · whether wel:!kly or mC'nthly, the employer shall pay for each contn- bution week beginning in that period a cootribution at the rate iset out in column 6 of the Schl!dule in relation to the wage group mto which fall the wages paid to the insured person during or immediately after the end of that period: Provided that - .. (a) if the insured person's wages are not fixed on a time basis, the total amount of the wages paid to him in or immediately after the specific period for which con tribution is to be paid may be taken into account; (b) if the insured person's wages are paid on a time basis other than weekly or monthly, the Dire<.1or may decide as to the w~ group to which his wages are to be assigned; (c) retros~tive awards of increased wages for periods for which insurance stamps have already heen affixed to contribution cards shall not be taken into account and no reasc;essntent of contributions for those periods shall be made; (d) in respect of insured persons under the age of six teen years 3nd of the age of sixty-five years and upwards, the weekly contribution irrespective of the amount nf wages, shall be as set out in the Schedule in relation to wage group X.
(2) For the purpose of determining the wages of an insured person under paragraph ( 1 ) of this regulation there shall be included all gross earnin~s received in cash by or on behalf of the insured person including ·- (a) overtime payments; (b) cost of living bonus; (c) family allowanres: (d) commission or profits on sales; (e) payments on account of night or shift work; and (f) holiday pay and amounts set aside out of the insured person's remuneration throughout the year or part of the year to be paid out to the insured person periodi cally; Provided that - (i) in the case of holiday pay and any other amounts set aside out of the insured person's wages as 141 in sub-paragraph (f), the pay or amounts set aside shall be ine'luded in the related wa~ for the appropriaite period for which contri butions would have been payable had the wages not been set aside; (ii) in the case of other payments listed in sub paragraphs (a) to ( e) the amount of payments so received shall, if they are not paid with the wages for the period in which they were due.
be included in the wage.s for the period in which they are paid.

(3) With a view to securing that liability for ,the payment of contributions is not avoided or reduced by an empldyer using any pay practice which is abnormal for the employment, the Director.

whether or not an application has been made to him, may, if hP.

llbinks fit, determine any question in relation to the paymem of con tributions where any such practice has been or is being followed a!".
if the empfoyer concerned had not followed such abnormal practice, but had followed a practice normal for ·Ube employment in question.
18. section 11 ot ·the Act for all benefits - There shall be liability for a contribution pursuant to Liability for :ntr;~ai:~~; (a) in the case of employed persons attaining the age of a1e !6 or 65. sixteen years, for the week in which the employed person reaches that age; ( b) in the case of insured persons attaining the age of sixty-five years, for the week in which the insured person reaches that age: Provided that in a case to which paragraph (b ) refers, there shall be no liability for a contribution, other than for industrial benefits, if the insured person attains lthe age of sixtiy-five years on the Monday of the week in question.
19.

(1) An employer liable to pay contributioills in respect or on Time of pa:,, behalf of an insured person shall, except as hereinafter provided, pay ~\nttl of con· those contributions before paying to rhe insured penson the wages in respect of the pemod for which a contribution is payable. '

u 00 '· (2) Where wages are paid in advance for any period the em ployer shall pay contributions in advance for that period before the payment of the wages.
( 3) In addition to his obligation to comply w1th any other requirement of the Act or of these Regulations, the employer shall pay all contiributicns due from him but still outstanding in respect of any insured person - (a) within fourteen days of tennination of employment where the employment is terminated by the insured person without any notice or intimation to th~ em ployer, and forthwith on the termination of the em ployment where the employment is terminated in any other manner; and 142 (b} within five days after the expiration of the currency of the contributioo card; and (c) within forty-eight hours after being requested to do so by the insured person.
( 4} ( a) The Board may, if it thinks fit, and subject to such terms and conditions as it may impose, (i) approve •any arrangemen'L whereby cctntiibu tions are paid at times or in a manner other than those prescribed in these Regulations and any such arrangement may include provision for the payment of such fees as may be de termined by the Board, to represent the estima to ted additional expense tibe Board; and in administration (ii) as a condition of authorising the payment of any contribution at a date later than that upon which the wages for any part of th:e period in respect of which the contributions payable a.re paid, re;:quire the making of such deposit of money by way of security as may be approved by the Board.
( b) Thic provisions of these Regulations shali, subject to the provisions of any such arrangement, apply to any person affected by the arrangements, and any cootraventJion of, or failure to comply with any requirements of any such arrangem~nt shall be deemed to be a contravention of or failure tc comply willh these Regulations.

ol Manner 20.
ol Manner 20.

(1) Every contribution payable in reJatlion to an insured per ::':f~tion:l son shall, except as herein otherwise provided, be paid by affixing an insurance stamp of the proper value, obtained in accordance with the c;ncc:nat1on !ar1dn~amp:i provisions of these Regulations, to the contribution card of the insured person in rthe space indicated for that purpose on the card.

cards.
cards.

(2) The employer shall, immediately after affixing an insur ance stamp to a contribution card, cancel the stamp by writing in ink or 1stamping with a metallic d~ with black indelible ink or composition across the fac<e of the stamp, the date upon which it is ,.lflixed, anJ not otherwise, but, save as expressly providbd in these or any other Regulatioos or as specially authorised by the Board.
no other writing or mark and no perforation shall at any timie be made on or in, affixed to, or impressed on, a contributfon card or stemp.

(3) An employer may, if .he thinks fit, inscribe upon the contribution card of any insured person employed by him, on any part of the card not designated for any specific pu!rposie, the number of that perc;on upon the pay list or books of the employer.

143 21.
143 21.

(1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this regulation, an employer ~:i':C'r ":i shall be entitled to recover from an insured person the amount of any oo!'trib11t1oat!

contribution paid by him on behalf of that person as set out in column ~!tf' :P e; 4 of the Schedule in relation to the wage group for which the employer :::_cd per is liable to pay tho¢ contribution in column 6 thereof.
(2) 'The amount of any cootribution paid by tlhc employer on behalf of the insured person, n~thst11111dmg the provisions of any contract to the contrary, shall be recoverable by means of deductions from the wages of such person and not otherwise: Provided that no such deduction may be made from any such wages other than such as are paid wholly or partly in respeot of Ube contribution week or part of contribution week for which the conto:i bution is payable.

22.
22.

( 1 ) An employer shall purchase insurance stamps from the !

'Jlrchase .

office of the Hoard, or any Post Office and from no other sourc¢ what- ::;ce soever, and it shall be lawful for any person employed by the Board or serving at a Post Office and duly authorised for the purpooe to sell insurance stamps.
of (2) No person - (a) not being authorised to do so .under paragraph (1) of this regulation shall sell insurance stamp; or (b) shall sell any insurance stamp for a price which ditl\!rs from the value stated thereon.

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23.

( 1) Where any insurance stamp has been inadvertently Replacement rendrered unfit _for use and an application is made to the Board willhin :~1;11::d:r. two years after the stamp was rendered unfit for use, it may, on the ed unfit tor surrender of the stamp, give in lieu thereof a clean and proper stamp use.

of the same value or (if practicable) such number of clean and proper stamps of a less value as will secure that the aggregate of those values corresponds to the value of the surrendered stamp.
, (2) All stamps surrendered under paragraph ( l) of this regulation shall be destro~d in the presence of an officer designated by the Director.

24.

Where any person has any unused insurance stamp which Repaymeni ol has not been spoiled or rendered mlfit or useless for the purpose in- ~fc'!f in~~r-un tended, but for whkh he has no immedfaoo use, the Board may, if it ance :,Pl thinks fit, repay to him the value of thre stamp in money upon his.
':i:ereor '"':, delivering up the stamp and proving to the satisfaction of the Board Board.

that it was purchased by him from a person authorised to sell insur- ance stamps under these Rregulations within two years before the applica1don and with a bona fide intention to use it.

PART III MISCELLANEOUS 25.

( J) Where an insured person is employed by two or more :-,1oymant employers in any contribution week, the first employer employing hint m~re ~~i:; en.
144 in that week, shall, subje(1t to the provisions of these R egulations, be treated as his employer for the purposes of the Act.
(2) Where an insured p.!rson is employed by two or more employers in any contribution week and no one of those ,employers is the first person employing him in that week, then, unless the case is cne for which other provision is expressly made by these Regula tions, that one of the employers who first makes a money payment to the persoo employed in resjJll!Ct of his employmenti in that week shaU be deemed Ito be the employer of that person for the purposes of the Act.
( 3) ·where an insured person is emplo)'\!d as an agent by two or more employers and paid by .

:ommission or fees or a share in the profits or partly in one and partly in another of 1!hose ways, the ~ ployer in the employment on which the person employed as an agemt is mainly dependent for his liwlihood shall be deemed to be 1!he employer of that person for the purposes of the Act.
( 4) Nothing in this regulation shall prevoot the insured person and t\\o or more of his 'l!mployers agreeing among.st themselves that one of the employers shall pay a contribution for the insuroo person in the appropriate wage group based upon the total wages from all his employers and that tih~ employer rn paying may recover from the wages paid hy him the insured person's contribution for that wage group.

~e.fe per:~ al conthrol d26.


( 1) Wherofe an insured pher~on wohir~s _underd0e gener woru undel an managemeut 1 a person w o 1s 111ot s Imme mte emp oyer, t at ~f~, :~: person (referred to hereafter in this regulation as "the principal ~n n_ot rus employer'') shail be deemed to be the employer for the purpose of unmediate em- th A 1 · al t e Imme 1ate emp oyer s a p1oyer.
employer with such particulars of the ins1:1r~d person's wages as may be necessary to enable the principal employer to comply with the pro visions of the Act.

· e prmc1p · h f um1s ct an d h h 11 ct· th e · (2) If the insured person's wages are actually paid to him by the immediate employer - {a) the immediate employer shall notify the principal employer of th'!!
wages to be paid and the immediate employer shall be notified by the principal employer of the amount of contributions which may be deducted when ,such wages are paid to the insured person, and the immediate employer may deduct the amount so notified to him; and (b) the principal employer may make a corresponding deduction on making to tlhe immediate employer the payment out of which the said wages will be paid.

27.

(1) No person shall assign or charge or agree t?


assign or ~rdtri~~nto assi1111ed charge any contribution car~, a!1d any sale, transfe: or assignment of, be or defaced.

or any charge on, any continbution card shall be void and of no effect.

145 (2) No person shall deface or destroy any contriblJtion card, or save as authorised by the Board, alter, amend or erase any of the figures or particulars ( other than to amend the address of the insured person) therein contained.
(3) For the purposes of this regull4i.on, any person who re moves or erases from an) contribution card an insuranoe stamp which has been affixed thereto or impressed tlhereon shall be deemed to have defaced that contribution card.

28.

If under these Regulations a person is required to pay any ~ent u contribution that under subsection ( 1 ) of section 16 of the Act another ascn person is liable to p-ay, his payment thereof shall be made as agent for that other person.

29.
29.

If an employer dies, anything that he would have been 1Dea th 1 liable to do :mder these Regulations shall be done by his legal personal cmp oy«.

representative or, in the case of an employer who paid wages on behalf of another person, by the person succeeding him, or, if no person succeeds him, the person on whose behalf he paid wages.

o1 30.
o1 30.

It shall be lawful for the Board to provide, from time to lloa~d ma~ time as it shall deem fit, proper and sufficient insurance stamps of such :U~:~: denominations according to the value of the same as may from time be swnps.

required for the purposes of expressing and denoting payment of con- tributions that are payable by means of insurance stamps.

31.

If any person contravenes or fails to comply with anv o«e~s and of these Regulations, he shall be guil,ty of an offence and shall be penalties.
liable on summary conviction· to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or where the offence consists of continuing any such contraven- tion or failure after conviction thereof, one hundred dollars together with a further sum of one hundred dollars for each day on which it is so continued.
SCHEDULE Group Acarnl weekly wages Corresponding rounded monthly wages Employed pt~on's weekly con- tdhution Employer's weekly con .. weekly con- Total tribntion tribution Relevant wnge for the purpose of contrib1J- tions and benefits 1.

2.

3.

I All insured per~ons Under $!0 Under $ 43~ " D 111 IV V X $10-$19.99 $ 43-$ 86.99 $20--$29.99 $ 87--$129.99 $30-$39.99 $130-$172.99 $40-$49.99 $173-$216.99 $SO and upwards $217 and upwards For industrial benefils only: 4. .

2Sc.

.4Sc.

.75c.
2Sc.

.4Sc.

.75c.

$1.0S $1.40 s. .90c . }

.70c • SI.15 $1.S5 $2.00 6.

7.

$1.lS $15.00 $1.90 $2.60 $3.40 $25.00 $3S.00 $4S.00 $1.60 $2.50 $4.10 $SS.00 -.,:..

Ot Persons under 16 years and 65 ye~m r•ud upwards, whatever their earnings.

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Made this 26th day of August, t 969.

W. CARRINGTON.

Minister of Labour & Social Security.