Mr. WORTHINGTON-EVANSasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether a man aged sixty-five or upwards and not previously insured has to make any contribution himself if he becomes employed before he reaches the age of seventy; whether he is included as an employed contributor; and, if not included, what Section exempts him?
§ Mr. MASTERMANUnder Sections 1 (4) and 4 (4), where a person not previously insured becomes sixty-five between the commencement of the Act and the date when he subsequently becomes employed, he does not become an insured person, and only the employers' contributions are payable in respect of him. Under Section 49 (1), where a person is sixty-five or upwards and under seventy at the commencement of the Act and employed at that date, the same contributions are payable in respect of him as if he were an employed contributor.
Mr. WORTHINGTON-EVANSIs the hon. Gentleman sure that he is not an employed contributor, although he is not an insured person?
§ Mr. MASTERMANI do not know of any reason for altering the facts that our legal advisers have given us.