National Health Insurance Act, 1947

PART II.

Re-Enactment, with modifications, of Part II (Miscellaneous Amendments of the Acts) of the Emergency Powers (No. 381) Order, 1946.

Provisions in relation to persons employed in non-insurable employment, but in respect of whom contributions were paid in good faith.

3.—(1) Where, whether before or after the passing of this Act, a person—

(a) has been or has been treated as a member of the Society or the Fund or the Society and the Fund for a continuous period of not less than five years, during which not less than two hundred and eight contributions or sums purporting to be contributions have been paid by or in respect of him, and

(b) has not secured membership of the Society or the Fund by fraud or misrepresentation, and

(c) is or has been employed in any employment which is not or was not insurable employment within the meaning of the Acts, but in respect of which sums purporting to be contributions have been paid by the employer in the belief that it was insurable employment within the meaning of the Acts, and

(d) is of the age of sixteen and not more than seventy,

the following provisions shall apply:—

(i) the sums referred to in paragraph (c) of this subsection shall be deemed to be contributions properly payable under the Acts,

(ii) he shall, during periods in respect of which the said sums were paid, be deemed to have been an insured person under the Acts,

(iii) sections 7 and 13 of the Act of 1918 shall apply to him as if, during the periods in respect of which the said sums were paid, he had been employed within the meaning of the Acts and had been an employed contributor.

(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 14th day of June, 1946.