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2. MERCANTILE MARINE, COLLECTION OF CONTRIBUTIONS, REGULATIONS, 1918

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[For Table of the Contents of the above Regulations see
pages 296 to 304.]

REGULATIONS, 1918. .

[England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.]

(3) If an employed contributor being a member of a Society has not received a proper card from his Society at the beginning of a period of currency he shall make application for a card to his Society, and if he does not receive a card before the time when it is required for presentation to his employer as hereinafter provided, he shall make application to a postmaster for the issue to him of a card, and the postmaster shall issue a card to him accordingly.

(4) If an employed contributor who is not a member of a Society has not received a proper card from the Commissioners at the beginning of a period of currency, he shall apply to a postmaster for the issue to him of a proper card, and the postmaster shall issue a card to him accordingly. (5) An employed contributor shall, where he is transferred from one Society to another, or otherwise ceases to be a member of a Society, or being a deposit contributor becomes a member of a Society, or where the card is lost or destroyed, or so damaged as to become useless for the purpose for which it is issued, and may, where he changes his employment during a period of currency, make an application to the Society of which he is or becomes a member, or to a postmaster, as the case may require, for the issue to him of a new card, and upon the receipt of that application the Society or postmaster shall issue to him a new card accordingly.

(6) Where a voluntary contributor becomes employed, he may, as he thinks fit, either retain the card issued to him as a voluntary contributor and treat it as having been duly issued to him under this Article, or surrender the card and apply for the issue of a card to him as an employed contributor.

(7) A Society or postmaster issuing any card shall inscribe upon it the name and address of the employed contributor to whom it is issued, and a Society may, if it thinks fit, further inscribe upon the card the number of the contributor as it appears in the books of the Society, and also any number or mark which may from time to time be registered for the purposes of this Article by the Society in the books of the Commissioners, and a branch of a Society may add the number of the branch in the books of the Society.

8. (1) Every employed contributor shall, unless prevented by some reasonable cause, produce to his employer the proper card for the current period at the time of entering any employment and at such other times as the employer may reasonably require, and for the purpose of this paragraph a person becoming an employed contributor by reason of attaining the age of 16 shall be deemed to be entering an employment on attaining that age.

(2) Every employed contributor shall, unless prevented by some reasonable cause, deliver up the proper card to his employer at such times as the employer may reasonably require it for the purpose of stamping in accordance with these Regulations.

(3) An employer may retain in his possession any card delivered up to him for the purpose of being stamped until it has been so stamped or, with the consent of the employed contributor, and except as hereinafter provided, until the expiration of the period of currency of the card, and the employer shall exercise reasonable care to prevent the loss or destruction of any card so retained by him.

9.-(1) Every employer shall, whenever any officer appointed under the Act so requests him, either in person or by notice in writing, produce or cause to be produced to the officer the card then current of any employed contributor employed by him and any card then in his possession, and, subject to the provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article, the employer shall upon receiving back from the officer the card of a contributor return it forthwith to the contributor

REGULATIONS, 1918.

[England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.]

(2) The employer shall return to the contributor any card in his possession or under his control at each of the times following, that is to say,

(a) on the termination of the employment, except where the
employment is terminated by the contributor without any notice
or intimation to the employer, in which case the time shall be
within fourteen days of the termination of the employment;
(b) on the expiration of the period of currency of the card or within
six days thereafter;

(c) within 48 hours after receiving a request in that behalf from the
contributor, whether such request is made before or after the

termination of the employment.

Where for any reason, other than the loss or destruction of the card, the card cannot be returned to the contributor, the employer shall, as soon as may be, send it to the Commissioners.

(3) In any case where a card is returned by an employer to the contributor, the contributor shall furnish to the employer, if the employer so requires, a receipt for the card.

10.—(1) Every contribution payable under the Act shall, except as otherwise provided in these Regulations, be paid by the affixing of a stamp to the card of the contributor in the space indicated for that purpose upon the card (a).

(2) An employer who is liable to pay contributions in respect of any contributor employed by him shall pay those contributions at the following times and in accordance with the following provisions, that is to say :(i) Where he pays to the contributor wages or other pecuniary remuneration in respect of the employment, he shall, before paying to the contributor the wages or remuneration in respect of the period for which contributions are payable, affix to the card of the contributor a stamp or stamps in payment of the contributions due in respect of that period :

Provided, nevertheless, that it shall be the duty of the
employer in any case—

(a) before the termination of the employment, except where
the employment is terminated by the contributor with-
out any notice or intimation to the employer, in which
case the employer shall pay contributions within fourteen
days of the termination of the employment;

(b) within six days after the expiration of the period of
currency of the card,

(c) within 48 hours after receiving a request in that behalf
from the contributor-

to affix to the card of the contributor a stamp or stamps in
payment of all the weekly contributions payable in respect of
the period ending at the date of such termination, expiration,
or request.

(ii) Where he does not pay to the contributor wages or other
pecuniary remuneration in respect of the employment, he shall,
on the first day of employment in each week, affix to the
card of the contributor a stamp in payment of the contribution
in respect of that week.

(iii) In the case of a man of the Naval Reserves, or of the Army
Reserve, or of the Air Force Reserve, or of the Territorial
Force, or of the Auxiliary Air Force, who is for the time being,
by reason of sub-section (8) of Section 46 of the Act as extended
by Section 25 of the Act of 1918 deemed to be in the sole

(a) Scottish Regulations. Add: "and by cancelling the same in accordance with the provisions hereinafter contained."

Method of payment of

contributions.