HC Deb 30 November 1911 vol 32 cc661-3

(1) The contributions payable in respect of employed contributors shall be at the rate specified in the Second Schedule to this Act (hereinafter referred to as the employed rate), and shall comprise contributions by the contributors and contributions by their employers at the rates specified in that Schedule, and shall be payable at weekly or other prescribed intervals.

(2) The employer shall, in the first instance, pay both the contributions payable by himself (in this Act referred to as the employer's contributions), and also on behalf of the employed contributor the contributions payable by such contributor, and shall be entitled to recover from the contributor by deduction from his wages or otherwise the amount of the contributions so paid by him on behalf of the contributor in accordance with the rules set out in the Third Schedule to this Act.

(3) Contributions in respect of employed contributors shall cease to be payable on their attaining the age of seventy.

(4) The employer of a person who though employed within the meaning of this Part of this Act is not insured under this Part of this Act by reason either—

  1. (a) that, not having previously been insured, he has become employed within the meaning of this Act after attaining the age of sixty-five; or
  2. (b) that he has obtained and still holds a certificate of exemption under this Act;
shall be liable to pay the like contributions as would have been payable as employer's contributions if such person had been an employed contributor, and such contributions shall be carried to such account and dealt with in such manner as may be prescribed.

Amendments made: In Sub-section (1), after the word "in" ["specified in the second"], insert the words "Part I. of."

After the word "that" ["specified in that Schedule"] insert the words "Part of that."

At the end of Sub-section (1), add the words, Provided that in the case of an employed contributor of the age of twenty-one or upwards whose remuneration does not include the provision of board and lodging by the employer and the rate of whose remuneration does not exceed two shillings a working day, such part of the contributions payable in respect of him as is specified in the said Schedule shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament.

In Sub-section (4), paragraph (a), after the word "been" ["not having previously been"], insert the word "an."

After the word "insured" ["previously been insured"], insert the word "person."

After the word "of" ["of this Act"], insert the words "this Part of."

In paragraph (b), after the word "under" ["under this Act"], insert the words "this Part of."

After the word "prescribed" ["in such manner as may be prescribed"], insert the words, by regulations made by the Insurance Commissioners, and those regulations may provide for applying the sums standing to the credit of the account, or any part thereof, for the benefit of any persons in respect of whom contributions have been so paid, in the event of such persons subsequently becoming employed contributors.—[Mr. Lloyd George.]