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Voluntary contributions (new rates).
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14.—(1) Section 6 of the Act of 1952 is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (2) (inserted by the Act of 1960) of the following subsection:
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“(2) Voluntary contributions shall be weekly contributions which shall be paid by voluntary contributors who are under pensionable age at the rate of—
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(a) £0.83 for each contribution week where, immediately before ceasing to be employed contributors, they were insurably employed in employment in respect of which the employment contributions payable are not reckonable for the purposes of old age (contributory) pension, and
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(b) £2.17 for each contribution week where, immediately before ceasing to be employed contributors, they were insurably employed in employment in respect of which the employment contributions payable are reckonable for the purposes of old age (contributory) pension,
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in the case both of male voluntary contributors and female voluntary contributors. ”
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(2) This section shall come into operation on the 7th day of April, 1975.
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