The National Insurance (Pensions, Existing Contributors) (Transitional) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1949

• Citation: S.I. 1949/1412
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These regulations, which may be cited as the National Insurance (Pensions, Existing Contributors) (Transitional) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations, 1949, shall be read as one with the National Insurance (Pensions, Existing Contributors) (Transitional) Regulations, 1948 , as amended (hereinafter referred to as “ the principal regulations ”) and shall come into operation on the 1st August, 1949.

Section 2 Amendment of regulation 8 of the principal regulations

(1) Regulation 8 of the principal regulations (which regulation provides for contributions under the Widows', Orphans' and Old Age Contributory Pensions Acts, 1936 to 1941, to be taken into account for the purposes of the National Insurance Act, 1946) shall be amended in accordance with the next following paragraph.

(2) For the proviso to the said regulation 8 there shall be substituted the following words:—

Provided that any such contributions which are paid on or after the appointed day, other than contributions payable by an employer in respect of an existing pensions contributor the delay in making payment of which is shown to the satisfaction of the Minister not to have been with the consent or connivance of, or attributable to any negligence on the part of the said contributor, shall not be taken into account except to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as those contributions would, but for the Act, have been taken into account under the Contributory Pensions Acts and any regulations made thereunder