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Special provision for existing voluntary contributors.
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17.—(1) Where a person to whom this section applies is at the commencement of this section a voluntary contributor, he may, notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (2) (inserted by this Act) of section 6 of the Principal Act, elect in the prescribed manner and within the prescribed period to pay voluntary contributions either at the rate specified in paragraph (a) or at the rate specified in paragraph (b) of the said subsection (2).
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(2) In this section “person to whom this section applies” means a person other than a person—
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(a) who is employed mainly in one or more of the employments specified in subarticle (1) of Article 5 of the Regulations of 1956,
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(b) who, immediately before ceasing to be an employed contributor, was insured under the Principal Act for the purposes only of widow's (contributory) pension and orphan's (contributory) allowance but of no other benefit, or
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(c) who, having been a person to whom section 70 of the Principal Act applied, had, immediately before becoming insured voluntarily under the National Insurance Act, 1911, been insured only under the Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Acts, 1935 to 1952.
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