§ (1) The contributions payable by voluntary contributors shall be at the rate appropriate to their age at the date of their entry into insurance ascertained in accordance with a table to be prepared by the Insurance Commissioners (hereinafter referred to as the voluntary rate) and shall be paid by the voluntary contributors at weekly or other prescribed intervals:
§ Provided that—
- (a) In the case of a person who comes into insurance within six months after the commencement of this Act, the voluntary rate shall, if he is below the age of forty-five at the date of coming into insurance, be the same as the employed rate, and if he is above that age, be such rate, ascertained according to a table to be prepared by the Insurance Commissioners, as, having regard to his age at that date, will be sufficient to cover seven-ninths, or in the case of a woman three-fourths, of the benefits conferred by this Part of the Act;
- (b) Where a person, having been an employed contributor for five years or upwards, becomes a voluntary contributor the rate of contribution payable by him shall continue to be the employed rate.
§ (2) Contributions by voluntary contributors shall cease to be payable on their attaining the age of seventy.
664§ Amendments made: Leave out the word "comes" ["comes into insurance"], and insert instead thereof the word "enters."
§ Leave out the word "coming" ["date of coming into"], and insert instead thereof the word "entering."
§ Leave out the words "above that age" ["if he is above that age"], and insert instead thereof the words "of the age of forty-five or upwards."—[Mr. Lloyd George.]