Social Welfare Act, 1948

Rates of contributions.

16.—(1) The contributions payable under the Principal Act in respect of employed contributors shall be at the rates set out in the Table to this section, instead of the rates specified in Part II of the First Schedule to the Act of 1920, and references in any enactment to Part II of the Second Schedule to the Principal Act shall be construed as references to the Table to this section.

(2) The reference in subsection (10) of section 81 of the Principal Act to the difference between the amount of contributions actually paid by or in respect of a contributor at the rate specified in Part II of the Second Schedule to the Principal Act and the amount which would have been paid if those contributions had been at the rate specified in Part I of that Schedule shall be construed as a reference to the sum of two pence.

Table to Section 16.

Rates of contributions in respect of employed contributors.

s.

d.

In the case of men

1

0½ a week.

In the case of women

0

11½ a week.

Contributions by Employers and Employed Contributors.

To be paid by the employer

6½d. a week.

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men

6d. a week.

To be paid by the contributor

women

5d. a week.