National Insurance Act, 1911 (leaflet)

1912-06 1912 1910s 4 pages 2 (A.) — EMPLOYED PERSONS WHO ARE NOT REQUIRED TO BE INSURED. 1. Persons employed as apprentices without wages, or learners receiving no wages. 2. Persons employed by the occupier of an agricultural holding without wages. 3. Children employed by their parents...

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Institution:MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
Language:English
English
Published: London : National Health Insurance Commission (England) June 1912
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Summary:1912-06 1912 1910s 4 pages 2 (A.) — EMPLOYED PERSONS WHO ARE NOT REQUIRED TO BE INSURED. 1. Persons employed as apprentices without wages, or learners receiving no wages. 2. Persons employed by the occupier of an agricultural holding without wages. 3. Children employed by their parents without wages, and persons who are maintained by their employer without wages. 4. Wives employed by their husbands, and husbands employed by their wives. 5. Outworkers who are the wives of insured persons and are not wholly or mainly dependent for their livelihood on their earnings as outworkers. 6. Persons casually employed ; except that persons have to be insured who are casually employed for purposes of the employer's trade or business, and that persons who are engaged or paid through a club for the purposes of a game or recreation must also be insured. 7. An agent paid by commission, by fees, or by share in profits ; but he must be insured if, being under contract of service, he is mainly employed by one employer and is mainly dependent for his livelihood on one employer. 8. Persons employed at a rate of more than 60 a year ; but all persons engaged in manual labour must be insured, whatever their earnings are. 9. Elementary school teachers who have accepted the Elementary School Teachers' Superannuation Act, 1898. 10. Employment of a kind which is ordinarily adopted as subsidiary employment only and not as the principal means of livelihood, if so specified in a Special Order issued by the Insurance Commission. 11. The following persons also will be excepted where the Insurance Commisnoners certify that the terms of their employment secure to them benefits in sickness and disablement of at least equal value to those given by the Act :— (a) Persons in the employment of the Crown. (b) Persons in the employment of local or other public authorities. (c) Clerks or salaried officials in the service of a railway or other statutory company who are entitled to rights in a superannuation fund established by Act of Parliament. (B.) — PERSONS WHO MAY CLAIM EXEMPTION, BUT IN RESPECT OF WHOM THE EMPLOYER'S CONTRIBUTION WILL BE PAYABLE. 1. Those who can show that they have a pension of £26 a year or more, or an income of £26 a year or more which they do not earn by their personal exertions ; OR 2. That they are ordinarily and mainly dependent for their livelihood upon some other person. In order that Exemption may be obtained before the Act comes into operation, Forms for claiming Exemption should be obtained from the Officer of Customs and Excise in whose district the claimant resides, or from any Post Office without delay. NOTE. — Enquiries as to the special conditions of insurance for persons over 65, soldiers, sailors, fishermen, seafaring persons generally, outworkers, and aliens, may be made of any Customs and Excise Officer, or of any Approved Society of which the person is a member. 345/3/2/1
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