Social Welfare Act, 1952
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PART II. Insured Persons and Contributions. | ||
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Insured persons. |
4.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act— | |
(a) every person who on or after the appointed day, being over the age of sixteen years and under pensionable age, is employed in any of the employments specified in Part I of the First Schedule to this Act, not being an employment specified in Part II of that Schedule, shall be an employed contributor for the purposes of this Act, and | ||
(b) every person becoming for the first time an employed contributor shall thereby become insured under this Act and shall thereafter continue throughout his life to be so insured. | ||
(2) Subject to the provisions of this Act, where a person ceases to be an employed contributor otherwise than by reason of attaining pensionable age and not less than one hundred and fifty-six employment contributions have been paid in respect of him, he 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). | ||
(3) A voluntary contributor shall, if he becomes an employed contributor, cease to be a voluntary contributor. | ||
(4) Regulations may provide for including among employed contributors persons employed in any of the employments specified in Part II of the First Schedule to this Act. | ||
(5) Regulations may provide for— | ||
(a) excluding particular employments or any classes of employment from the employments specified in Part I of the First Schedule to this Act, or | ||
(b) adding to the employments so specified particular employments or any classes of employment, | ||
and, where the Minister considers that any modifications of this Act are appropriate having regard to the purpose for which the regulations are made, the regulations may make those modifications. | ||
(6) Where regulations are proposed to be made for the purposes of subsection (4) or subsection (5) of this section, a draft thereof shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas and the regulations shall not be made until a resolution approving of the draft has been passed by each such House. |