Title 18 Laws of Bermuda Item 7(c)

BERMUDA STATUTORY INSTRUMENT

SR&O 46/1973

CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS (EXCEPTION FROM LIABILITY FOR CONTRIBUTIONS) REGULATIONS 1973

[made under section 38 of the Contributory Pensions Act 1970 [title 18 item 7] and brought into operation on 6 August 1973]

ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

1 Certificates of exception 3 [omitted]

2 Prescription of higher annual income

1. Certificates of exception

(1) A person who desires to be excepted from liability to pay contributions by virtue of section 5 of the Contributory Pensions Act

1970 (which relates to the exception from such liability on grounds of small income) [title 18 item 7] shall make an application for that purpose to the Director who, if he grants the application, shall issue to the applicant a certificate of exception.

(2) Any such application and certificate shall be in such form as may for the time being be approved by the Director.

(3) An application [sic] for, and a holder of, a certificate of exception shall furnish to the Director such information and evidence relating to his income as the Director may require on the making of the application and from time to time thereafter.

(4) A certificate of exception shall be in force for such period as may be specified therein, being a period commencing not earlier than the date on which the application therefor was made:

1989 Revision 1 CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS (EXCEPTION FROM LIABILITY FOR CONTRIBUTIONS) REGULATIONS 1973

Provided that—

(a) if any condition attached to the issue, or continuation in force, of the certificate is not, or ceases to be fulfilled, the certificate shall cease to be in force as from the date of such nonfulfilment or cessation, and the holder shall forthwith notify the Director to that effect;

(b) the period specified in the certificate may, at the discretion of the Director, commence on such date not earlier than thirteen weeks before the application therefor was made as the Director may consider appropriate to the circumstances of the case.

(5) The holder of a certificate of exception—

(a) shall, when called upon to do so by an officer of the Department of Social Insurance, produce the certificate for the officer's inspection;

(b) may at any time give notice to the Director that he desires the certificate to be cancelled, whereupon the certificate shall cease to be in force from such date as the Director may determine.

(6) An insured person shall be excepted from liability to pay a contribution as an employed or self-employed person for any week during the whole of which a certificate of exception is in force in relation to him. [Paragraph 1 amended by 2002:27 s.3(3) effective 6 December 2002]

Prescription of higher annual income

2 An annual income of $3,000 is hereby prescribed for the purposes of section 5(1) of the Contributory Pensions Act 1970 with effect that the reference to an income at a rate exceeding $1,250 a year in that section shall be construed as a reference to an income at a rate exceeding $3,000.

Commencement

3 [omitted]

[Amended by: BR 47/1988

2002 : 27]

2 1989 Revision