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Amendment of section 24 of Principal Act (voluntary contributors)
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33. Section 24 of the Principal Act is amended, by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (1):
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“(1) Subject to this Act, where a person ceases to be an employed contributor or a self-employed contributor—
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(a) otherwise than by reason of attaining pensionable age, or
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(b) otherwise than, in the case of a person born on or after 1 January 1958, by reason of having been awarded the State pension (contributory) or attaining the age of 70 years,
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and the person has qualifying contributions in respect of not less than 520 contribution weeks, he or she shall, on making application in the prescribed manner and within the prescribed period, be entitled to become an insured person paying contributions under this Act voluntarily (in this Act referred to as ‘a voluntary contributor’).”.
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