Social Welfare Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1962

Amendment of section 9 of Act of 1952.

10.—(1) Section 9 of the Act of 1952 is hereby amended by the addition thereto of the following subsection:

“(2) For the purposes of this section the entry into insurance of a contributor, whether an employed contributor or a voluntary contributor, shall be deemed to have occurred after he had attained the age of sixty if after the time of such attainment he became for the first time an employed contributor in respect of whom contributions reckonable for the purposes of the contribution conditions for an old age (contributory) pension are payable and he had not been an employed contributor under the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1952, before attaining the age of sixty.”

(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall come into operation on the 1st day of August, 1962.