Insular Insurance (Amendment No. 11) (Jersey) Law 1965

Jersey Law 1/1965 INSULAR INSURANCE (AMENDMENT No. 11) (JERSEY) LAW, 1965. ____________ A LAW to amend the Insular Insurance (Jersey) Law, 1950, sanctioned by Order of Her Majesty in Council of the 29th day of JANUARY, 1965. ____________ ( Registered on the 5th day of February, 1965 ). ____________ STATES OF JERSEY. ____________ The 19th day of January, 1965. ____________ T HE STATES, subject to the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have adopted the following Law: - ARTICLE 1 Immediately before Article 66 of the Insular Insurance (Jersey) Law, 1950, 1 as amended, (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Law”), there shall be inserted the following Article – “ARTICLE 65A POWER TO AMEND LAW The States may by regulations vary – (a) any of the rates of contribution or of the States’ supplement contained in Parts I, II, III, IV and V of the First Schedule to this Law; and (b) any of the rates of benefit or grant set out in Parts I and II of the Second Schedule to this Law.” ARTICLE 2 For the First and Second Schedules to the principal Law 2 there shall be substituted the Schedules so numbered set out in the Schedule to this Law. ARTICLE 3 (1) For the proviso to paragraph (3) of Article 20 of the principal Law 3 there shall be substituted the following proviso – “Provided that the total amount of the reduction under this paragraph of the weekly rate of a widowed mother’s allowance for any week shall not exceed the weekly rate of a widow’s pension or, in the case where the allowance, (apart from any increase in respect of any child or children other than the elder or eldest) is payable at a weekly rate less than the weekly rate of a widowed mother’s allowance, such smaller sum as may be prescribed.” (2) For sub-paragraph (b)(ii) of paragraph (2) of Article 25 of the principal Law 4 there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph – “(ii) if they would both, but for this provision, be entitled for the same period to an increase under this Article at the weekly rate applicable to an only, elder or eldest child, as set out in the third column of the Second Schedule to this Law, in respect of different children, one of them shall be entitled to an increase at that rate and the other (subject to provision ( i ) hereof) to an increase at the weekly rate applicable to a child other than an only, elder or eldest child as set out in the fourth column of the said Second Schedule;”. ARTICLE 4 (1) This Law may be cited as the Insular Insurance (Amendment No. 11) (Jersey) Law, 1965, and this Law and the Insular Insurance (Jersey) Laws, 1950 to 1963, may be cited together as the Insular Insurance (Jersey) Laws, 1950 to 1965. (2) This Law shall come into force on such day or days as the States may by Act appoint. SCHEDULE “FIRST SCHEDULE (Article 5) CONTRIBUTION RATES PART I EMPLOYED PERSONS Description of employed person. Weekly Rate of Contribution. s. d. Men between the ages of 18 and 70 (not including men over the age of 65 who have retired from regular employment) .............. 6 4 Women between the ages of 18 and 65 (not including women over the age of 60 who have retired from regular employment ......... 5 2 Boys under the age of 18 ................................. 3 11 Girls under the age of 18 ................................... 3 2 PART II EMPLOYERS Description of employed person. Weekly Rate of Contribution. s. d. Men over the age of 18 ...................................... 6 4 Women over the age of 18 ................................. 5 2 Boys under the age of 18 .................................... 3 11 Girls under the age of 18 .................................... 3 2 For the purpose of this Part of this Schedule, a person over pensionable age, not being an insured person, shall be treated as an employed person if he would be an insured person were he under pensionable age and would be an employed person were he an insured person. PART III SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS Description of self-employed person. Weekly Rate of Contribution. s. d. Men between the ages of 18 and 70 (not including women over the age of 65 who have retired from regular employment) ........ 12 6 Women between the ages of 18 and 65 (not including women over the age of 60 who have retired from regular employment) ........ 10 1 Boys under the age of 18 ................................... 7 9 Girls under the age of 18 ..................................... 6 2 PART IV NON-EMPLOYED PERSONS Description of non-employed person. Weekly Rate of Contribution. s. d. Men between the ages of 18 and 65 .................. 10 2 Women between the ages of 18 and 60 .............. 8 4 Boys under the age of 18 .................................... 6 2 Girls under the age of 18 ................................... 5 0 PART V STATES’ SUPPLEMENT Description of person by or in respect of whom contribution is paid. Amount of supplement. For contribu-tion as employed person. For employer’s contribution. For contribu-tion as self-employed person. For contribu-tion as non-employed person. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Men over the age of 18 1 4 1 3 2 6 2 0 Women over the age of 18 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 8 Boys under the age of 18 - 10 - 9 1 7 1 3 Girls under the age of 18 - 8 - 7 1 3 1 0 SECOND SCHEDULE (Articles 12, 25, and 26) RATE OF BENEFIT PART 1 RATES OF PERIODICAL BENEFITS AND OF INCREASES FOR DEPENDANTS Description of benefit Weekly Rate. Increase for only child or elder or eldest child (where payable). Increase for each additional child (where payable) Increase for adult dependant (where payable). s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. 1 Sickness and injury benefit – (a) in the case of a person over the age of eighteen, not being a married woman .................. 55 0 15 0 7 6 35 0 (b) in the case of a person under the age of eighteen, not being a married woman – ( i ) during any period during which that person is entitled to an increase of benefit in respect of a child or an adult dependant ........... 55 0 15 0 7 6 35 0 (ii) during any other period 34 0 – – – (c) in the case of a married woman over the age of eighteen – ( i ) during any period during which she is entitled to an increase of benefit in respect of her husband or during which she is not residing with, and is unable to obtain any financial assistance from, her husband ....... 55 0 15 0 7 6 35 0 (ii) during any other period 37 0 15 0 7 6 35 0 (d) in the case of a married woman under the age of eighteen – ( i ) during any period during which she is entitled to an increase of benefit in respect of her husband, or during which she is entitled to an increase of benefit in respect of a child or an adult dependant other than her husband, and she is not residing with, and is unable to obtain any financial assistance from, her husband ............................ 55 0 15 0 7 6 0 35 0 (ii) during any other period during which she is entitled to an increase of benefit in respect of a child or adult dependant .................... 37 0 15 0 7 6 35 0 (iii) during any other period 34 0 – – – 2. Widow’s allowance ................... 69 6 15 0 7 6 – 3. Widowed mother’s allowance .... 70 0 (including 15s 0d for only child) – 7 6 – 4. Widow’s pension ....................... 55 0 – – – 5. Guardian’s allowance ................ 15 0 – – 6. Retirement pension – (a) where the pension is payable to a woman by virtue of a husband’s insurance and he is alive ............................. 35 0 15 0 7 6 – (b) in any other case .............. 55 0 15 0 7 6 35 0 PART II AMOUNTS OF GRANTS Description of Grant. Amount. £ s. d. 1. Maternity Grant...................................................... 10 0 0 2. Home Confinement Grant ..................................... 12 0 0 3. Death Grant, where the person in respect of whose death the grant is paid was at his death – (a) under three years of age; 6 0 0 (b) between three and nine years of age; 10 0 0 (c) between ten and twenty years of age; 15 0 0 (d) over twenty years of age. 20 0 0” A.D. LE BROCQ, Greffier of the States. 1 Tome 1949–1950, page 585. 2 Tome 1961–1962, pages 332 to 338. 3 Tome 1961–1962, page 28. 4 Tome 1951–1953, page 296.