Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Act, 1935

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Insured persons.

5.—(1) Each of the following persons shall be an insured person for the purposes of this Act, that is to say:—

(a) every person who is an insured person within the meaning of the National Health Insurance Acts;

(b) every person who is a soldier;

(c) every person employed in an excepted employment to which this Act applies.

(2) Where a person, who is, by virtue of paragraph (c) of the immediately preceding sub-section, an insured person, ceases to be employed in an excepted employment to which this Act applies, such person shall, for a period of twelve months commencing next after the end of the week in which he ceased to be so employed, for the purposes of this Act, remain an insured person.

In calculating for the purposes of this sub-section the said period of twelve months no account shall be taken of any period during which the person who has so ceased to be employed is rendered incapable of work by reason of some specific disease or by bodily or mental disablement of which notice and proof has been given to the Minister within the prescribed time and in the prescribed manner or any period after such person has attained the age of seventy years.

(3) In this Act the expression “insured person” when used without qualification means a person who is an insured person by virtue of this section, and the word “insurance” in relation to any such person shall be construed accordingly.