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29 1935

WIDOWS AND ORPHANS PENSIONS ACT, 1935

PART VIII.

Amendments of National Health Insurance Acts and Old Age Pensions Acts.

Construction and citation of Part VIII.

66. —(1) This Part of this Act shall, in so far as it amends the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1934, be read with and deemed to be part of those Acts.

(2) This Part of this Act shall, in so far as it amends the Old Age Pensions Acts, 1908 to 1932, be read with and deemed to be part of those Acts.

Amendment of section 13 of the National Health Insurance Act, 1918.

67. —(1) Section 13 of the National Health Insurance Act 1918, is hereby amended by the insertion at the end of sub-section (4) thereof of the words “or any period after a person has attained the age of seventy years,” and the said section shall be construed and have effect accordingly.

(2) This section shall have and be deemed to have had effect as from the coming into force of section 13 of the National Health Insurance Act, 1918.

Limited amendment of section 13 of the National Health Insurance Act, 1918.

68. —For the purposes of this Act, but no further or otherwise, the provisions of sub-section (1) of section 13 of the National Health Insurance Act, 1918, as amended by this Act, shall apply and be deemed always to have applied to an insured person under the National Health Insurance Acts, who at the date on which he ceased to be employed was not a member of an approved society or the Unified Society.

Further amendment of section 13 of the National Health Insurance Act, 1918.

69. —For the purposes of the National Health Insurance Acts, the provisions of sub-section (1) of section 13 of the National Health Insurance Act, 1918, as amended by this Act, shall apply and be deemed always to have applied to an insured person, within the meaning of the National Health Insurance Acts, who was not a member of an approved society or of the Unified Society, and who at the time of joining the Unified Society proves to the satisfaction of the Unified Society that his normal occupation is employment within the meaning of the National Health Insurance Acts.

Option to existing voluntary contributors.

70. —(1) Any person who is at the date of the passing of this Act insured under the National Health Insurance Acts as a voluntary contributor, unless before the second appointed day and in the prescribed manner he gives notice to the Minister that he elects to become an insured person under this Act, shall cease as from the second appointed day to be entitled to pay contributions under the National Health Insurance Acts as a voluntary contributor, and as from the second appointed day shall be deemed not to be an insured person for the purposes of this Act.

(2) Sub-sections (3) and (4) of section 13 of the National Health Insurance Act, 1918, shall, in relation to any person who by virtue of sub-section (1) of this section ceases to be entitled to pay contributions under the National Health Insurance Acts as a voluntary contributor, have effect as if for references therein to twelve months there were substituted references to twenty-four months.

Extension of class of persons who may become voluntary contributors.

71. —(1) Where any person who has been employed in an excepted employment to which this Act applies (not being a married woman) ceases after the date of the passing of this Act to be so employed, such person may, subject to the prescribed conditions, become a voluntary contributor under the National Health Insurance Acts.

(2) Where a man who is not an insured person marries a woman who is an insured person by or in respect of whom one hundred and four contributions have been paid under this Act, he may, if he gives notice within the prescribed time after the marriage and in the prescribed manner, become a voluntary contributor under the National Health Insurance Acts.

Cesser of right to pay contributions as a voluntary contributor.

72. —Where the number of contributions calculated in the prescribed manner paid or deemed in accordance with regulations made under this Act to have been paid for any contribution year (whether paid within that year or within such period after the expiration of that year as may be prescribed) by a person insured as a voluntary contributor under the National Health Insurance Acts is less than thirty-nine, or where the number of contributions so paid or deemed to have been paid for any two consecutive contribution years represent on the average less than forty-five contributions in respect of each of those years, that person shall as from the expiration of the prescribed period cease to be entitled to pay contributions as a voluntary contributor and as from that date shall be deemed not to be an insured person for the purposes of this Act.

Returns by the Unified Society.

73. —There shall be included amongst the returns which the Unified Society may be required to make under sub-section (1) of section 35 of the National Insurance Act, 1911, such particulars with respect to the insurance under the National Health Insurance Acts of any person who was a member of an approved society or who is or was a member of the Unified Society as the Minister may require for the purposes of this Act, and the provisions of the said section shall apply accordingly, and there shall be paid to the Unified Society such sums as may, subject to the consent of the Minister for Finance, be prescribed, and the sums so paid shall be treated as part of the administrative expenses of this Act.

Application of Probation of Offenders Act, 1907.

74. —Where—

(a) the employer of an insured person, within the meaning of the National Health Insurance Acts or this Act, is charged with an offence in relation to payment of contributions due by him under the said Acts or this Act, and

(b) the Court proposes to make an order under sub-section (1) of section 1 of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1907,

the Court shall not make such order until it is satisfied that all arrears in respect of such contributions have been paid by such employer.

Amendment of Old Age Pensions Acts, 1908 to 1932, in relation to certain widows.

75. —Where—

(a) a woman is in receipt of a widow's (contributory) pension at the date on which she attains the age of seventy years, or

(b) a woman, who is over the age of seventy years at the date of the death of her husband, would, if she had been under the said age at the said date, have become entitled to a widow's (contributory) pension,

such woman shall be entitled to an old age pension under the Old Age Pensions Acts, 1908 to 1932, at the rate of ten shillings per week notwithstanding that her yearly means exceed the amount entitling her to a pension at that rate.