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Cesser of right to pay contributions as a voluntary contributor.
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72.—Where the number of contributions calculated in the prescribed manner paid or deemed in accordance with regulations made under this Act to have been paid for any contribution year (whether paid within that year or within such period after the expiration of that year as may be prescribed) by a person insured as a voluntary contributor under the National Health Insurance Acts is less than thirty-nine, or where the number of contributions so paid or deemed to have been paid for any two consecutive contribution years represent on the average less than forty-five contributions in respect of each of those years, that person shall as from the expiration of the prescribed period cease to be entitled to pay contributions as a voluntary contributor and as from that date shall be deemed not to be an insured person for the purposes of this Act.
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