Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Act, 1947

PART II.

Re-enactment, with modification, of the Emergency Powers (No. 382) Order, 1946.

Provisions in relation to certain persons employed in excepted employments to which the Principal Act applies, who ceased to be so employed.

4.—Where, whether before, on or after the operative (Part II) date,—

(a) a person was employed in an excepted employment to which the Principal Act applies, and

(b) the employment of such person ceased to be an excepted employment to which the Principal Act applies by reason of its having become an employment which is, by virtue of paragraph (g) of Part II of the First Schedule to the National Insurance Act, 1911, an excepted employment within the meaning of the said last-mentioned Act, and

(c) such person had been at the date of such cesser employed for not less than two hundred and eight weeks in an excepted employment to which the Principal Act applies and not less than two hundred and eight contributions under the Pensions Acts had at the said date been paid by or in respect of such person, and

(d) after the date of such cesser sums, purporting to be contributions under the Pensions Acts, were paid by or in respect of such person in the belief that he continued to be employed in an excepted employment to which the Principal Act applies,

the following provisions shall have effect—

(i) the said sums shall be deemed to be contributions properly payable under the Pensions Acts;

(ii) such person shall, during periods in respect of which the said sums were paid, be deemed to have been a person employed in an excepted employment to which the Principal Act applies;

(iii) subsection (2) of section 5 and subsection (1) of section 71 of the Principal Act shall apply to him as if during the periods in respect of which the said sums were paid he had been employed in an excepted employment to which the Principal Act applies.