HC Deb 01 February 1918 vol 101 cc2034-5

(1) The persons not employed within the meaning of Part I. of the principal Act, who are entitled to be or become voluntary contributors under Part I of the principal Act, shall, instead of being the persons specified in Sub-section (3) of Section one of that Act, be the following persons, that is to say:—

(c) All persons who were insured as voluntary contributors on the fifth day of November nineteen hundred and seventeen, and have since that date continued to be insured persons.

Lords Amendments:

In Sub-section (1), paragraph (c), leave out the words "fifth day of November", and insert instead thereof the words "first day of January."—Agreed to.

Leave out the words "seventeen and have," and insert instead thereof the words "eighteen, or who having at any previous time been insured as voluntary contributors ceased to be so insured by reason of becoming employed contributors and were insured persons at that date, and have in either case."—Agreed to.