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Social Security (CAI9 408 1

CHAPTER 408

THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT

Arrangement of Sections
Section

1. Short title.
2. Interpretation.

Administration and Finance

3. Social Security Fund.
4. Social Security Board.
5. Committees of the Board.
6. Remuneration of the Board and its committees.
7. The Director.
8. Delegation by the Director.
9. Director's deputy.

10. Staff of the Board.
11. Terms and Conditions of Employment with the Board.
12. Inspectors.
13. Investment Committee.
14. Investment of moneys.
15. Initial expenditure, and temporary insufficiency of assets.
16. Expenses of Post Office.
17. Accounts and audit.
18. Review of operation of Act.

Insured Persons and Contributions

19. Persons to be insured.
20. Voluntary insurance.
21. Source of funds.
22. Contributions by employed persons and employers.

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23. Exemption from liability for, and crediting of, contribu-
tions.

24. Employment by more than one employer.
25. Paersons to be treated as employers.
26. General provisions as to payment and collection of con-

tributions etc.

Benefits

27. Description of benefit.
28. Occupational benefit.
29. Rates of and conditions for benefit; meaning of

"marriage" extended.
30. Time and manner of making claims.
31. Time and manner of paying benefit; disqualifications;

adjustment or extinguishment of benefit; persons
unable to act; deceased persons.

32. Appointment and remuneration of medical officers or
referees, and medical boards.

33. Repayment of benefit improperly received.
34. Benefit to be inalienable.

PART N

Adjudication hnd Legal Proceedings

35. Determination of claims and questions.
36. Interim payments, arrears and repayments.
37. Remuneration of persons and tribunals appointed or

constituted under sec. 35.
38. Offences and penalties.
39. General provisions as to prosecutions.
40. Recovery of contributions on prosecution.
41. Civil proceedings.
42. Proceedings for benefit lost by employer's default.

Miscellaneous

43. Crown servants.
44. Persons employed aboard ships, vessels or aircraft.
45. Reciprocal agreements with other countries.

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46. Exemption from stamp duty.
47. Regulations.
48. Regulations to be laid before Parliament.
49. Operation of private schemes.
50. Protection of contributions in certain cases.
51. Provisions as to commencement of insurance under this

Act.
52. Validity of regulations made. S. R. 0.43/1973.

FIRST SCHEDULE:
Constitution and Proceedings of the Social Security
Board of Control.

SECOND SCHEDULE:
Insurable employments.

SOCIAL SECURITY

(1 1 th July, 1972.)

1. This Act may be cited as the Social Security Act. short ti&.

2. (1) In this Act- Interpretation.

"appointed day" shall have the meaning ascribed to it in
section 51;

"beneficiary" means a person entitled to benefit;

"benefit" means any benefit under this Act;

"Board" means the Social Security Board of Control
established by subsection (1) of section 4;

"claimant" means a person who has claimed benefit;

"contribution" means a contribution under this Act;

"contribution card" means the card issued by the Board
for the purpose of the payment of contributions by
means of insurance stamps affixed thereto;

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"contribution period" means the prescribed period in
respect of which the contribution is payable;

:contribution week" means a period of seven days
commencing from midnight between Sunday and
Monday;

"employed person" means a person who is insured by
virtue of subsection (1) of section 19;

"incapable of work" means incapable of work by reason
of a specific disease or bodily or mental disable-
ment or deemed in accordance with regulations to
be so incapable;

"insurable employment" means subject to subsection
(3) of section 19 any employment specified in the
Second Schedule;

"insured" means insured under this Act:

"insurance stamp" means any label, stamp or device for
denoting the payment of contributions, issued
pursuant to this Act;

"Investment Committee" means the Social Security Fund
Investment Cornittee established by subsection
(1) of section 13;

"loss of faculty" means the partial or total loss of the
normal use of an organ or part of the body or the
destruction or impairment of any bodily or mental
function (including disfigurement whether or not
accompanied by any loss of function);

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for the subject
of social security;

"self-employed person" means a person gainfully occu-
pied in employment in Antigua and Barbuda who
is not an employed person;

"unpaid apprentice" means an apprentice who, under his
contract of apprenticeship, receives no pecuniary
remuneration;

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"wages" includes salary or any other pecuniary r.cRrnti-
neration as may be prescribed.

( 2 ) For the purposes of this Act, a persorl shall be
deemed to be over or under any age therein mentioned
according to whether he has or has not attained that age,
and a person shall be deemed to be between two ages therr-
in mentioned if he has attained the first mentioned age but
has not attained the second mentioned age.

Administration and Finance.

3. ( 1 ) There is hereby established a fund to be called pi2-T19'
the Social Security Fund hereinafter called the Fund into
which shall be paid-

( a ) all contributions;

(b ) all rent, interest on investments, or other
income derived from the assets of the Fund;

( c ) all sums recovered under this Act as fines, fees,
penalties or costs;

(d) all sums properly accruing to the Fund under
this Act, including the repayment of benefit; and

( e ) such other sums as may be provided by
Parliament for the purposes of the Act or as may be
received and accepted by the Board on behalf of the
Fund.

( 2 ) There shall be paid out of the Fund-

(a ) all benefits;

(b ) refunds of contributions; and

( c ) all expenses properly incurred in the adminis-
tration of this Act.

4. ( 1 ) There is hereby established a board to be spO.~~,securit~
called the Social Security Board of Control, in which the
Fund shall be vested and which shall, subject to the provi-
sions of this Act, be responsible for administering the Fund,
and the provisions of the First Schedule shall apply as Fintschedu'e.
respects the constitution of the Board and its proceedings.

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(2) The Board shall be a body corporate with perpetual
succession and a common seal and shall, in its corporate
name, be capable of suing and being sued and, subject to
the provisions of this Act, of purchasing or otherwise acquir-
ing, holding, charging and alienating real or personal
property and of doing or performing such acts as bodies
corporate may by law do or perform.

(3) The Board shall have a Head Office in the City of
Saint John's and service on the Board of any notice, order
or other document shall be executed by delivering the same
or by sending the same by post, addressed to the Director
at the Head Office.

(4) The seal of the Board shall be kept in the custody of
the Director and shall not be affixed to any instrument
except by the authority of a resolution of the Board, and the
sealing of any instrument shall be authenticated by the signa-
ture of the Director and of such other person as the Board
may appoint for the purpose.

(5) The Board shall consider and advise upon all mat-
ters which may from time to time be referred to it by the
Minister, and shall furnish to the Minister such information
as he may reasonably require about the operation of the Act.

(6) The Board shall render annual reports to the
Minister; and the Minister shall, as soon as possible after
receiving any such report, lay a copy thereof before
Parliament:

Provided that the first report to be rendered under this
subsection may cover such period ending not later than two
years after the appointed day as the Board, with the approval
of the Minister, may determine.

Committees of the
Board.

5. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act the Board
may appoint such committees of the Board as it may think fit:

Provided that any such committee shall include not less
than two members of the Board, and may include persons
who are not members of the Board.

(2) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the constitution
and functions of a committee of the Board shall be deter-
mined by the Board.

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6. There shall be paid out of the Fund- Remuneration of
the bPn l and its

(a) to the chairman, deputy chairmarl and each eummitt"@5'
member of the Board in respect of his olficc as suck,
such remuneration and allowances (if any) as tttc
Minister may determine; and

(6) to any person co-opted to a meeting of the
Board, and to any person, not being a member of the
Board, who serves on a committee of the Board, such
remuneration and allowances as the Minister may dctcr.
mine upon a recommendation by the Board.

7. (1) The Public Service Commission shall appoint n e b t o r .
a fit and proper person to be the chief administrative officer
of the Board (in this Act referred to as "the Director").

(2) The Director shall, subject to the provisions of this
Act and the general direction of the Board, be responsible
for the direction of the staff of the Board and for the man-
agement of the Fund and in particular for-

(a) the collection of contributions under this Act;

(b) the payment of benefit under this Act, and of'
the expenditure necessary for the administration of the
Fund;

(c) the investment, where not inconsistent with this
or any other Act, of surplus moneys in the Fund; and

(d) accounting for all moneys collected, paid or
invested under this Act.

8. (1) The Director may, in relation to any matter or Delegationbyhe
Director.

class of matters, by writing under his hand delegate to an
officer or employee of the Board any of his functions under
the Act, except this power of delegation, so that the delegat-
ed function may be performed by such officer or employee
with respect to the matter or class of matters specified in the
instrument of delegation.

(2) Every delegaGon under this section shall be revoca-
ble at will, but any delegation shall not prevent the perform-
ing of any function by the Director.

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Director'sdeputy. 9. (1) The Public Service Commission shall appoint
a fit and proper person to be the Director's deputy.

(2) On the occurrence of a vacancy in the office of
Director (whether caused by death, resignation or other-
wise) and in the case of illness, absence or temporary inca-
pacity of the Director, from whatever cause arising, and so
long as such vacancy, illness, absence or incapacity contin-
ues, the Director's deputy shall have and may exercise all the
powers, duties and functions of the Director.

Staff of the
Board.

(3) The fact that the Director's deputy exercises any
power, duty or function as aforesaid shall be sufficient evi-
dence of his authority so to do.

10. The Director may from time to time, acting upon
the advice of the Board, appoint persons to be officers or
employees of the Board.

Tenns and
Conditions of

11. The terms and conditions of employment of offi-
Employmentwith cers and employees of the Board other than those of the
the B O U ~ . Director and the Director's deputy shall be prescribed from

time to time by the Minister and shall be no less favourable
than those prescribed for public servants of similar grades.

Inspectors. 12. (1) The Board'may designate such officers or
employees in its service as it thinks fit to be inspectors for the
purposes of this Act.

(2) Every inspector shall be furnished with a certificate
of his appointment and on applying for admission to any
premises or place for the purposes of this Act shall produce
the certificate.

(3) The premises or places liable to inspection under
this section shall include any premises or place where an
inspector has reasonable cause to believe that any persons
are employed whether or not such premises or place is used
exclusively for residential purposes.

(4) An inspector shall for the purposes of this Act have
power to enter at all reasonable times any premises or place
liable to inspection under this Act and there make any

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examination or enquiry necessary for the put p0~eie.r of this
Act, and to require the production of any docunwrlt rclariilg
to contributions or the liability to contribute t o the Fit114, fiar
inspection by him on the said premises or place, a114 to copy
such documents or make extracts therefrom.

(5) The occupier of any premises or place liable to
inspection under this section, and any other person who is
or has been employing any person, and the servants or
agents of any such occupier or other person, shall f'i~r~lisk to
an inspector all such information and shall produce Sc~r his
inspection all such documents as the inspector may reason-
ably require.

(6) Any person who without reasonable cause
obstructs, impedes, hinders, molests or refuses admission to,
an inspector in the exercise of any power under this section,
or refuses or neglects to furnish any information or produce
any document when required to do so under this section,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary
conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.

13. (1) There is hereby established a committee to 'nv-ment
Committee.

be called the Social Security Fund Investment Committee
which shall consist of three members to be appointed by the
Minister of whom-

(a) one shall be a person with experience in the
investment of moneys, nominated by the Minister;

( b ) one shall be the Director; and

(c) one shall be another member of the Board,
nominated by the Board and approved by the Minister.

(2) The Investment Committee shall appoint its own
chairman and may regulate the procedure at its meetings.

(3) The Investment Committee shall meet at such
times as the chairman or the Minister may appoint.

(4) The Investment Committee shall have power to
give general or specific directions from time to time on the
investment of moneys in the Fund which are surplus to cur-
rent needs; and the Director shall give the Investment

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Committee any information necessary for the proper dis-
charge of its function.

Investment of
moneys. 14. (1) Moneys in the Fund may be lawfully expend-

ed byathe Board in the purchase of any land or building
deemed by the Board to be necessary for the proper admin-
istration of this Act.

(2) The investment of moneys in the Fund not other-
wise required shall be made by the Director in accordance
with the directions of the Investment Committee.

Initial
expenditure,

15. (1) The initial expenditure incurred in carrying
,d temporary this Act into effect shall be defrayed out of the Consolidated
insufficiency of Fund.
assets.

(2) Any temporary insufficiency in the assets of the
Fund to meet the liabilities of the Fund shall be advanced
out of the Consolidated Fund.

(3) Subject to the provisions of this Act, any sums pro-
vided under subsection (1) to defray expenditure incurred
after the appointed day, and any sums advanced under sub-
section ( Z ) , shall be repaid out of the Fund as soan as may be
practicable. .

Expenses of Post
Office.

16. There shall be paid out of the Fund into the
Consolidated Fund by the Director such sums as may be esti-
mated by the Minister responsible for Finance to be the
amount of the expenses of the Post Office in carrying this
Act into effect. Payment shall be made at such times and in
such manner as may be agreed by the Financial Secretary
and the Board.

Accounts and
audit.

17. (1) The Board shall cause to be kept proper
books of account, and other books and records in relation
thereto, in which shall be recorded all financial transactions
of the Fund.

(2) The accounts of the Fund shall be prepared in such
form and at such times as the Minister may direct, and shall
be audited annually by such person as the Board, with the
approval of the Minister, may appoint.

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(3) The Director of Audit, or such pc.rsc3t) i ts ~ltc
Director of Audit may nominate, shall at ;ill rirri~s have tl~e
right to inspect the accounts of the Fund, and t o report
thereon.

(4) The Board shall-

( a ) submit to the Minister every account, ccrtifipd
by the appointed auditor in accordance with strhWc-
tion ( Z ) , within one month of the date of suclr certificate;
and

( b ) submit annually to the Minister a statenlerlt of'
the securities in which moneys forming part of' the
Fund are for the time being invested.

(5) The Minister shall, as soon as possible after receiving
any account in accordance with subsection (4), lay a copy
thereof before Parliament.

18. (1) The Board shall with the assistance of' an :;z,"n(urAct.
actuary approved by the Minister review the operation of this
Act during the period ending with the thirty-first day of
December (1975) and thereafter during the period ending
with the thirty-first day of December in every third year, and
on each such review shall make a report to the Minister on
the financial condition of the Fund and the adequacy or
otherwise of contributions to support benefits, having
regard to its other liabilities under the Act:

Provided that the Minister may at any time direct that
the period to be covered by any review and report under this
subsection shall be reduced and that the making of that and
subsequent reviews shall be accelerated accordingly.

(2) The Minister shall, as soon as possible after receiv-
ing any report in accordance with subsection ( I ) , lay a copy
thereof before Parliament.

Insured Persons and Contributions.

19. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, every Personstobe
~nsured.

person who on or after the appointed day-

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(a) is sixteen years of age or over and under sixty
years of age; and

(b) is gainfully occupied in insurable employment,
t

shall be insured under this Act and shall remain so insured
for life.

(2) Regulations may provide for the insurance under
this Act of self-employed persons, of unpaid apprentices, of
persons under sixteen years of age and of persons sixty years
of age and upwards in respect of any of the several contin-
gencies in relation to which benefits are provided; and any
such regulations may prescribe such modifications of the
provisions of this Act or make such other provisions, as are
necessary for the purpose of giving effect to this subsection.

(3) Regulations may provide for modifying the applica-
tion of subsection (1) in relation to cases in which it appears
to the Minister desirable to do so because of the nature of a
person's employment or otherwise, and such regulations
may in particular provide-

(a) for treating as not being insurable employ-
ment, or for disregarding-

(i) employment which is of a casual or subsidiary
nature or in'which the person concerned is
engaged only to an inconsiderable extent;

(ii) employment in the service of, or for the pur-
pose of the trade or business, or as a partner,
or a relative of the person concerned;

(iii) such employment in the service of, or in the
service of a person employed by, such interna-
tional organisations, or countries other than
Antigua and Barbuda, as may be prescribed;

(b) for treating as being insurable employment
such employment outside Antigua and Barbuda, in con-
tinuation of insurable employment in Antigua and
Barbuda, as may be prescribed; and

(c ) for treating a person's employment as continu-
ing during periods of holiday or incapacity for work or
in such other circumstances as may be prescribed.

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20. (1) Any insured person who is not liablr to pay E!;z,
contributions shall be entitled on making application to thr
Director within such time and in such manner as rnay be
prescribed to receive a certificate of voluntary insurance if
he satisfies the prescribed conditions.

(2) An insured person holding a certificate of volun-
tary insurance may pay within such time and in such manner
as may be prescribed the contributions at the prescribed
rate for any contribution period for which he is not liable t o
pay a contribution as an insured person, and regulations
may prescribe the circumstances in which such a perso11
may cease to be entitled to contribute in default of paymetkt
of contributions within the prescribed time.

21. (1) For the purposes of this Act contributions Sourmaffunds.
shall subject to the provisions of this Act, be payable by
insured persons and by employers.

(2) Regulations shall provide for fixing, from time to
time, the rates of contribution to be paid by such different
categories of insured persons and employers as may be pre-
scribed.

22. (1) Except where regulations otherwise provide ~~~~~~;~~
an employer liable to pay a contribution in respect of a per- anfernployem.
son employed by him shall in the first instance be liable to
pay also on behBlf of and to the exclusion of such person
any contribution payable by such person for the same con-
tribution period, and for the purposes of this Act contribu-
tions so paid by an employer shall be deemed to be
contributions paid by such person.

(2) Notwithstanding any contract to the contrary an
employer shall not be entitled to deduct from the wages of a
person employed by him, or otherwise recover from such
person, the contribution of the employer in respect of such
person.

(3) An employer shall be entitled, subject to and in
accordance with regulations, to recover from the pecuniary
remuneration of a person employed by him the amount of
any contribution paid or to be paid by him on behalf of

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Exemption from
liability for, and
crediting of
contributions.

Employment by
more than one
employer.

Persons to be
treated as
employers.

General
provisions as to
payment and
collection of
contributions, etc.

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such person and, notwithstanding anything in any enact-
ment, such regulations may authorise such recovery to be
made by deduction from the wages of such person.

23. Regulations may provide-
(a) for exempting insured persons and their

employers from liability to pay contributions for such
periods as may be prescribed; and

( b ) for crediting contributions to insured persons
in respect of such periods (whether before or after the
appointed day) and for such purposes, as may be pre-
scribed.

24. Where an employed person is employed succes-
sively or concurrently in a contribution week or part of a
contribution week by more than one employer, each employ-
er shall be liable to pay to the Fund contributions with
respect to the wages paid by him to that person.

25. In relation to persons who-
(a) are employed by more than one employer in

any contribution period; or

(6) work under, the general control or manage-
ment of some person other than their immediate
employer

and in relation to any other cases for which it appears to the
Minister that special provision is needed, regulations may
provide that for the purposes of this Act the prescribed per-
son shall be treated as the employer; and such regulations
may further provide for adjusting the rights between them-
selves of persons prescribed as the employer, the immediate
employer and the person concerned.

26. (1) Regulations may provide-
(a) for the registration of employed persons;

(6) for the payment and collection of contribu-
tions;

(c) for the maintenance by employers of records
of the payment of contributions;

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(d) for treating, for the purpose of any right to
benefit, contributions paid after the due dates as paid
on such dates, or on such later dates as may be pre-
scribed, or as not having been paid;

( e ) for treating, as paid for the purposes of any
right to benefit, contributions payable by an employer
on behalf of an insured person but not paid where the
failure to pay is shown not to have been with the con-
sent or connivance of, or attributable to any negligence
on the part of such person;

Cf) for treating contributions appropriate to the
wrong category of person, or at the wrong rate, as and
on account of the contributions properly payable;

(y) for the return of contributions paid in error; and

(h) for any other matters incidental to the payment
and collection of contributions under this Act.

(2) Where by regulations made under subsection (1)
contributions are payable by means of security stamps such
stamps shall be prepared and issued in such manner as the
Minister may direct, and the Minister may-

( a ) arrange with the Minister responsible for the
Post Office for the sale of security stamps through any
post office; and

(6) by regulations provide for applying, with the
necessary adaptations as respects insurance stamps, all
or any of the provisions (including penal provisions) of
the Stamp Act or of any other enactment relating to Cap.410.
stamps.

(3) Where regulations permit contributions to be paid,
at the option of the person liable to pay, by a method other
than by means of security stamps, and that method involves
greater expense in the administration of the Fund than
would be incurred if the contributions were paid by means
of security stamps, such regulations may provide for payment
to the Fund by any person who adopts such method, and for
the recovery on behalf of the Fund, of the prescribed fees in
respect of the difference in the expense of administration.

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Description of
benefit.

Benefits.

2'7. (1) Benefit shall be of the following kinds,
namely-

(a ) age benefit, that is to say, a payment or period-
ical payments to, an insured person who has reached
sixty years of age;

( b ) sickness benefit, that is to say, periodical pay-
ments to an insured person who is rendered temporari-
ly incapable of work otherwise than as a result of
employment injury.

(c) invalidity benefit, that is to say, periodical pay-
ments to an insured person who is rendered perma-
nently incapable of work otherwise than as a result of
employment injury;

(d) maternity benefit, that is to say, a payment or
periodical payments to an insured woman or to the
wife of an insured man in the case of her pregnancy or
confinement;

(e ) funeral grant, that is to say, a payment on the
death of an insured person;

(j) survivors' benefit, that is to say, a payment or
periodical payment made in respect of an insured per-
son who dies otherwise than as a result of an employ-
ment injury.

(2) In this section the expression "employment injury"
means such injury as attracts compensation under the

Cap. 475. Workmen's Compensation Act or occupational benefit
under this Act.

Occupational
benefit. 28. (1) Regulations may provide that in addition to

the kinds of benefit specified in section 27, there shall be
occupational benefit which shall consist of-

( a ) injury benefit, that is to say, in addition to such
free medical care and attention as may be prescribed peri-
odical payments to an insured person who suffers person-
al injury by an accident arising out of and in the course of
insurable employment or develops any prescribed disease
being a disease due to the nature of such employment;

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(b) disablement benefit that is to say, in addition
to such free medical care and attention as may bc prr-
scribed periodical payment5 to an insured person who
as a result of such injury or disease as aforesaid sustains
loss of faculty;

(c) death benefit, that is to say, periodical pay-
ments in respect of any insured person who dies as a
result of such injury or disease as aforesaid:

Provided that, subject to the provisions of sections 44
and 45, occupational benefit shall not be payable in respecl
of an accident which happens outside Antigua and
Barbuda, or a disease which is due to the nature of an
employment in which the insured person has been engaged
only outside Antigua and Barbuda.

(2) From and after the day when regulations under
subsection (1) come into operation an insured person who
suffers any such personal injury or develops any such dis-
ease as entitles him to occupational benefit shall not in rela-
tion to such injury or disease be regarded as a workman for
the purpose of the Workmen's Compensation Act.

29. (1) Regulations shall provide for- Rates of and
conditions for

(a) the rates or amounts of benefit and the varia- ~ ~ ~ ~ & ~ $ "
tion of such rates or amounts in different or special cir- extended.
cumstances;

(b) the conditions subject to which and the periods
for which benefit may be granted;

(c) the date as from which benefit is provided.

(2) Regulations made under subsection (1) may
include provisions that-

(a) where it is a condition of title to benefit that a
person is the widow or widower of an insured person,
the Director may treat a single woman or widow who was
living with a single man or widower at the time of his
death as if she were in law his widow (or a single man or
widower who was living with a single woman or widow at
the time of her death as if he was in law her widower):
Provided that the Director is satisfied that in all the

circumstances she (or he) ought to be so treated;

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( b ) where the question of marriage or remarriage
or the date of marriage or remarriage, arises in regard
to title to benefit the Director shall in the absence of
the subsistence of a lawful marriage decide whether or
rlot the persons concerned should be treated as if he,
she or they were married or had remarried as the case
may be, and if so from what date; and in determining
the question the Director shall have regard to the pro-
visions of paragraph (a) ;

(c) the determination of the Director under para-
graph (a) or (b) shall, unless the context otherwise
requires, have the effect of extending, as regards title
to benefit, the meaning of the word "marriage" to
include the association of a single woman or widow
with a single man or widower as aforesaid and the
words "wife" "husband" "widow" "widower" and
"spouse" shall be construed accordingly.

Theandmanner 30. (1) It shall be a condition of a person's right to
of making claims.

benefit-

(a) that, within the prescribed time, he makes a
claim therefor to the Director on the form provided by
the Director for the purpose or in such manner as the
Director may accept in the circumstances of the case; and

(6) that he produces such certificates, documents,
information and evidence for the purpose of determin-
ing the right to benefit as the Director may require,
and for that purpose attends at such office or place as
the Director may appoint.

(2) Regulations may require employers to maintain
such records, to make such reports and to furnish such
information as may be prescribed for the purpose of estab-
lishing any person's title to any benefit.

T i e and manner 31. Regulations may provide-
of paying benefit;
disqualifications;
adjustment 01

(a) for disqualifying a person for the receipt of
extinguishment of any benefit if he fails to make a claim therefor within
benefit; persons
unable to act;

the prescribed time:
deceased persons. Provided that any such regulation shall provide for

extending the time within which the claim is to be made
in cases where good cause is shown for the delay;

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(b ) for the prevention of the receipt of two benefits
and the adjustment of benefits in special circumstances;

( 6 ) as to the time and manner of payment of bene-
fits and the information to be furnished by any person
when applying for payment;

(d) for adjusting the commencement and termina-
tion of benefit, or changes in the rate of benefit, so that,
except in the case of sickness benefit, payments shall
not be made in respect of any period shorter than a
contribution week or at different rates for different
parts of a contribution week;

(e) for extinguishing the right to payment of any
sum by way of benefit if payment is not obtained within
a prescribed period;

(f) for disqualifying a person for receiving sickness
benefit, or such other benefit as may be prescribed for
such period as may be prescribed if that person-

(i) has become incapable of work through his
own misconduct. or

(ii) fails without good cause to attend for or sub-
mit to such medical examination or treatment
as may be required in accordance with the
regulations;

(iii) does any work as an employed or self-
employed person; or

(iv) fails without good cause to observe any pre-
scribed rules of behaviour;

(g) for suspending payment of benefit to or in
respect of any person during any period when he-

(i) is absent from Antigua and Barbuda; or

(ii) is undergoing imprisonment or detention in
legal custody,

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Appointment and
remuneration of
medical officers
or referees, and
medical boards.

Repayment
of benefit
improperly
received.

CAP. 408) Social Security

and for specifying the circumstances and manner in
which payment of the whole or any part of the benefit
may instead of being so suspended be made during any
sych period to any prescribed person nominated by the
beneficiary, or for the maintenance of any prescribed
person who the Director is satisfied is a dependant of
the beneficiary;

(h) for enabling a person to be appointed to exer-
cise on behalf of any other person who may be or
become unable for the time being to act, any right or
power which that other person may be entitled to exer-
cise under this Act and for authorising a person so
appointed to receive and deal with any sum payable by
way of benefit to that other person;

(i) in connection with the death of any person for
enabling a claim for benefit to be made or proceeded
with in his name, for authorising payment to or among
persons claiming as his personal representatives, lega-
tees, next of kin, creditors or otherwise, and for dispens
ing with strict proof of title of persons so claiming; and

( j ) for such other matters as may be necessary for
the proper administration of benefits, including the
obligations of claimants, beneficiaries and employers.

32. (1) Regulations may provide for the appoint-
ment of medical officers or medical referees, and for the
establishment of medical boards for the purposes of this Act.

(2) There shall be paid out of the Fund to a medical
officer or medical referee appointed under such regulations
and to a member of a medical board so established, such
salary or other remuneration as the Board with the prior
approval of the Minister may determine and such expense
incurred in connection with the work of such medical offi-
cer, medical referee or member as may be so determined.

33. (1) If it is found that any person by reason of the
nondisclosure or misrepresentation by him of a material fact
(whether such nondisclosure or misrepresentation was or
was not fraudulent) has received any sum by way of benefit,
while he was not entitled to that benefit, he shall be liable to
repay the sum so received by him.

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( 2 ) Where any person is liable to repay any si11ri received
by him by way of benefit, that sum may be recovcrcct wid~our
prejudice to any other remedy by means of dedrlctiorrs from
any benefit to which he thereafter becomes entitled.

34. Every assignment of or charge on berielit and hoefi t to be
every agreement to assign or charge benefit shall be void, and lruljennbie.

on the bankruptcy of a beneficiary the benefit shall not pass
to any trustee or other person acting on behalf of creditors.

Adjudication and Legal Proceedings.

35. ( 1 ) Regulations may provide for the determina- Btcmninnlian of
cl.lmr End

tion by the Board, by the Director, or by a person or tribunal qumha*.
appointed or constituted in accordance with the regula-
tions, of any question arising under or in connection with
this Act including any claim to benefit, and subject to the
provisions of the regulations the decision in accordance
therewith of any such question shall be final.

( 2 ) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection
( l ) , regulations made thereunder may in relation to the
determination of questions in accordance with the regula-
tions include provision-

( a ) as to the procedure to be followed, the form
of any document the evidence to be required, and the
circumstances in which any official record or certificate
is to be sufficient or conclusive evidence;

( 6 ) as to the time to be allowed for making any
claim or appeal, for raising any question with a view to
the review of any decision, or for producing any evi-
dence;

( c ) for summoning persons to attend and give evi-
dence or produce documents and for authorising the
administration of oaths to witnesses;

( d ) as to the representation of one person at the
hearing of a case by another person whether having
professional qualifications or not,

and except in so far as it may be applied by such regulations
the Arbitration Act shall not apply to any proceedings under Cap. 33.
this section.

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(3) Regulations under subsection (1) shall provide for

( a ) the reference to the High Court of any ques-
tion of law arising in connection with the determina-
tion of any question under the regulations;

(6) appeals to the High Court from the decision
of the Board or of a person or tribunal or any such
question:

and provision shall be made by rules of Court for regu-
lating references and appeals to the High Court under
this subsection and for limiting the time within which
appeals may be brought thereunder.

(4) Notwithstanding anything in any enactment the
, decision of the High Court on a reference or appeal under

subsection (3) shall be final, and the Court may order the
Board to pay the costs of any person whether or not the
decision is in favour of the Board and whether or not the
Board appears on the reference or appeal.

I n t e h ~ a ~ m e n t s ~ 36. (1) Regulations shall provide as respects matters
arrears and
repayments. arising-

(a ) pending the determination under this Act
(whether in the first instance or on appeal or review) of
any claim for benefit or of any question affecting the
right of any person to benefit or to the receipt thereof;
or

(6) out of the revision of appeal oi- review of any
decision of any such claim or question.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection
( I ) , regulations thereunder shall include provision-

(a) for the suspension of benefit where it appears
to the Director that there is or may be a question
whether the conditions for the receipt thereof are or
were fulfilled or whether the award ought to be revised;

(6) as to the date from which any decision on
review is to have effect;

(c) for treating any benefit paid to any person
which it is subsequently decided was not payable as

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properly paid, or as paid on account of any other bene-
fit which it is decided was payable to him, or fbr the
repayment of any such benefit;

(4 for treating benefit paid to a person in respect
of a child as properly payable for any period notwith-
standing that by reason of a subsequent decision another
person is entitled to benefit in respect of that child for
that period; and for reducing or withholding accord-
ingly any arrears payable for that period by virtue of
that subsequent decision.

37. There shall be paid out of the Fund to a person :=:;zd
appointed under regulations made under subsection (1) of ~ b , , , , ~
section 35 and to a member of a tribunal constituted under appo?tedor

constxtuted under those regulations such salary or other remuneration as the set. 35.
Board with the approval of the Minister may determine and
such expenses incurred in connection with the work of such
person or member as may be so determined.

38. (1) Any person who fails to pay at or within the Offencesand
penalties.

time prescribed for the purpose any contribution which he
is liable under this Act to pay shall for each such failure be
liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one
thousand dollars and in default of payment of such fine to
imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.

(2) Any employer who deducts or attemps to deduct
or otherwise recovers or attempts to recover the whole or
any part of the contribution of the employer in respect of
any person from the wages or other remuneration of such
person shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not
exceeding five hundred dollars and in default of payment
of such fine to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three
months.

(3) Any person who-

(a ) buys, sells or offers for sale, takes or gives in
exchange, or pawns or takes in pawn, any card or any
used security stamp; or

( b ) affixes any used security stamp to any contri-
bution card; or

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(c) removes any security stamp from any contribu-
tion card, or without lawful excuse is in possession of
any used security stamp or any contribution card issued
in the name of any other person; or

(d) for the purpose of obtaining any benefit or
other payment under the Act, whether for himself or
some other person, or for any other purpose connect-
ed with the Act-

(i) knowingly makes any false statement or false
representation; or

(ii) produces or furnishes, or causes or knowingly
allows to be produced or furnished, any docu-
ment or information which he knows to be
false in a material particular,

shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not
exceeding one thousand dollars or imprisonment for a
term not exceeding six months or to both fine and
imprisonment. In addition to such fine, the court may
order any such person to refund to the Board any sum
or benefits derived from the commission of the
offence.

(4) In any proceedings under subsection (1) a security
stamp shall be deemed to have been used if it has been
affixed to a contribution card or cancelled or defaced in any
way whatsoever and whether it has been used for the pur-
pose of paying a contribution or not.

General
provisions as to

39. (1) Proceedings for an offence under this Act
. shall not be instituted except by or with the consent of the

Board or by an officer of the Board authorised in that
behalf by special or general directions of the Board.

(2) Any such officer although not of counsel or a solic-
itor may prosecute or conduct before a court of summary
jurisdiction any such proceedings as aforesaid.

(3) Notwithstanding any provision in any enactment
prescribing the period within which summary proceedings
may be commenced, proceedings for an offence under this
Act may be commenced at any time within the period of

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three months from the date on which evidence sufiieie~lt in
the opinion of the Board to justify a prosecution for the
offence comes to its knowledge or within the period of
twelve months after the commission of the offence which
ever period last expires and for the purpose of this subsec-
tion a certificate purporting to be signed on behalf OF the
Board as to the date on which such evidence came to its
knowledge shall be conclusive evidence thereof.

(4) In any proceedings for an offence under this Act
the wife or husband of the accused shall be competent to
give evidence, whether for or against the accused:

Provided that the wife or husband shall not be compel-
lable to give evidence or in giving evidence to disclose any
communication made to her or him during the marriage by
the accused.

( 5 ) Where an offence under this Act which has been
committed by a body corporate is proved to have been
committed with the consent or connivance of or to be
attributable to any negligence on the part of any director,
manager, secretary or other officer of the body corporate,
he as well as that body shall be deemed to be guilty of that
offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and
penalised accordingly.

40. ( 1 ) In any case where a person has been donvict- Recovery of
contributions on

ed of the offence under subsection ( 1 ) of section 38 of fail- prosecution.
ing to pay a contribution he shall be liable to pay to the
Fund a sum equal to the amount which he failed to pay.

(2) In any case where-

( a ) a person is convicted of an offence under
paragraph (b) of subsection ( 3 ) of section 38 or of an
offence under any provision of the Stamp Act or of any
other enactment relating to stamps as applied by regu-
lations or of an offence under any regulation, and

(b ) the evidence on which such person is convict-
ed shows that for the purpose of paying any contribu-
tion which he was liable to pay he has affixed to any
contribution card any used security stamp within the
meaning of that paragraph,

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26 CAP. 408) Social Security

that person shall be liable to pay to the Fund a sum equal to
the amount of the contributions in respect of which the
stamp was affixed.

(3) On any such conviction as it mentioned in sub-
section (1) or (2), if notice of intention to do so has been
served with the summons or warrant, evidence may be given
of the failure on the part of the person concerned to pay
other contributions during the two years preceding the date
of the offence, and on proof of such failure the person con-
cerned shall be liable to pay to the Fund a sum equal to
the total of all the contributions which he is so proved to
have failed to pay.

(4) Where any person is charged with any such offence
as is mentioned in subsection (1) or (2) and a probation

Cap. 345. order is made under the Probation of Offenders Act, the
foregoing provisions of this section shall apply as if the making
of the order were a conviction.

(5) Any sum ordered to be paid to the Fund under this
section shall be recoverable as a penalty.

(6) Any sum paid by an employer under this section
shall be treated as a payment in satisfaction of the unpaid
contributions and any part of such sum which represents an
employed person's contribution shall not be recoverable by
the employer from the insured person.

('I) If an employer being a body corporate fails to pay
to the Fund any sum which the employer has been ordered
to pay under this section such sum or such part thereof as
remains unpaid shall be a debt due to the Fund jointly and
severally from any directors of the body corporate who knew
or could reasonably be expected to have known of the fail-
ure to pay the contribution in question.

(8) Nothing in this section shall be construed as pre-
venting the Board from recovering any sums due to the
Fund by means of civil proceedings.

cidpmceedings. 41. (1) All sums due by way of contributions to the
Fund under this Act shall bear interest from such date and

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at a rate to be prescribed by regulations, and shall be
recoverable-

( a ) as civil debt; or

(6) by warrant issued by the Director and directed
to the Registrar of the Supreme Court, setting out irr
such warrant or in a schedule thereto the several stirns
due on account of contributions from the persons and
bodies against whom the warrant is directed:

Provided that no warrant shall be issued under thicl
section unless the Director has given at least thirty days
notice to the person or persons against whom the
warrant is directed.

(2) Proceedings for summary recovery of sums due to
the Fund may, notwithstanding anything in any enactment
to the contrary, be brought at any time within three years
from the time when the matter complained of arose.

(3) Proceedings for the summary recovery as civil
debts of sums due to the Fund may be instituted by any offi-
cer of the Board authorised in that behalf by special or gen-
eral directions of the Board, and any such officer may
although not of counsel or a solicitor conduct such pro-
ceedings.

(4) The Registrar of the Supreme Court shall on
receipt of the warrant issued under subsection (1) proceed
to levy upon the goods, chattels and lands of the person or
persons against whom the warrant is directed and to sell so
much of such goods, chattels and land as may be required
to satisfy the sums due on account of the contributions to
the Fund.

(5) Every sale pursuant to subsection (4) shall be con-
ducted by public auction and shall be held at a place and
time to be determined by the Registrar of the Supreme
Court.

(6) No sale shall be conducted under this section
unless a notice of such sale is published in the Gazette.

(7) The proceeds of the sale shall be applied to the
payment of the contributions due and the expenses of the

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levy and sale and the surplus if any shall be paid on applica-
tion to the person entitled thereto.

Proceedings for
benefit lost by 42. (1) Where an employer has failed or neglected-
employer's
default. ( a ) to pay any contributions which he is liable to

pay in respect of or on behalf of any insured person; or

( b ) to comply in relation to any such person with
the requirements of the Act relating to the payment
and collection of such contributions,

and by reason of such failure or neglect that person or any
other person to whom benefit may have been payable has
lost in whole or in part the benefit to which he would have
been entitled, that person or that other person shall be enti-
tled to recover summarily from the employer as a civil debt a
sum equal to the amount of the benefit so lost.

( 2 ) Proceedings may be taken under this section
notwithstanding that proceedings have been taken under
any other provisions of this Act in respect of the same fail-
ure or neglect.

(3) Proceedings under this section may notwithstand-
ing any enactment to the contrary, be brought at any time
within one year after the date on which the person con-
cerned would, but for the employer's failure or neglect,
have been entitled to receive the benefit lost.

PART V.

Miscellaneous.

crown servants. 43. This Act shall apply to persons employed by or
under the Crown in like manner as if the Crown were a pri-
vate person, with such modifications as may be made there-
in by regulations for the purpose of adapting the provisions
of this Act to the case of such persons.

P e ~ ~ e m ~ l o y e d 44. (1) Without prejudice to the generality of any
aboard ships
v-,k,,8;&t. other power to make regulations, the Minister may make

regulations modifying in such manner as he thinks proper
the provisions of this Act in relation to persons who are or
have been employed on board any ship, vessel or aircraft.

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Social Security (W. 4013 29

(2) Regulations made under subsection ( I ) rnay in
particular provide-

( a ) for the insurance under this Act of persons who
are or have been employed on or after the appoirrted
day on board ships, vessels, or aircraft nohvithstanditlg
that they do not fulfil the conditions of section 19;

( b ) for excepting from insurance under this Act
or from liability to pay contribution any person
employed as aforesaid who neither are domiciled nor
have a place of residence in Antigua and Barbuda;

( c ) for the taking of evidence for the purpose of'
any claim for benefit in any place outside Antigua arid
Barbuda;

(d) for enabling persons on board ships, vessels,
or aircraft to authorise the payment of the whole or ariy
part of any benefit to which they are or may become
entitled to such of their dependants as may be pre-
scribed;

(e) for the payment of occupational benefit to or
in respect of persons employed aboard ships, vessels or
aircraft in respect of accidents happening in the course
of, or of prescribed diseases which are due to the
nature of, such employment;

0) for treating as accidents arising out of and in
the course of employment aboard any ship, vessel or
aircraft accidents happening while the employed person
is proceeding to or from such employment, or in other
prescribed circumstances; and

(g) for withholding any benefit which may be
payable to a mariner for any period while the owner of
his ship or vessel is under a statutory obligation to pay
him wages.

45. For the purpose of giving effect to any agreement ~~~~~~ _&
with the government of any other part of the othercountries.
Commonwealth or the government of any other country,
being an agreement which provides for reciprocity in mat-
ters of social security, it shall be lawful for the Minister, by
order to modify or adapt the provisions of this Act in their
application to cases affected by the agreement.

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30 CAP. 408) Social Security

Exemption from
stamp duty.

46. (1) Stamp duty shall not be chargeable upon
any draft or order or receipt given in respect of any benefit
or upon any receipt given in respect of any other payment
out ofathe Fund under subsection (2) of section 3 or upon
any receipt given by an officer or employee of the Board for
or in respect of any sum payable to the Fund.

(2) Nothing in subsection (1) shall be deemed to
exempt any person from liability to pay stamp duty on any
power of attorney or on any documents other than those
mentioned in subsection (1) which is otherwise liable to

Cap. 410. duty under the Stamp Act.

Regulations. 47. (1) The Minister may make such regulations as
are required by this Act to be made, or such regulations
modifying or affecting the operation of any provision of this
Act as he may consider necessary or desirable generally for
the better carrying into effect of the provisions of this Act.

(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 17
Cap. 224. of the Interpretation Act regulations may provide a penalty

of three hundred dollars for each offence being a contra-
vention of or failure to comply with any regulation, or
where the offence consists of continuing any such contra-
vention or failure after conviction thereof, three hundred
dollars together with a further three hundred dollars for
each day on which it is so continued.

(3) Any power conferred by this Act to make regula-
tions may be exercised-

(a) either in relation to all cases to which the
power extends or in relation to all such cases subject to
specified exceptions or in relation to any specified
cases or class of case;

( b ) so as to make as respects the cases in relation
to which it is exercised-

(i) The full provision to which the power extends
or any less provision;

(ii) the same provision for all cases in relation to
which the power is exercised, or different

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provision for different cases, or cliffcrenc prep
vision as respects the same case fr)r diffcrcrit
purposes of the Act;

(iii) any such provision either unconditiorially or
subject to any specified condition.

(4) Without prejudice to any specific provisioi~ of this
Act, any regulations may contain such incidental or supple-
mentary provisions as appear to the Minister to be expcdi-
ent for the purposes of the regulations.

48. All regulations shall be laid before Parliament as u 7 before 1rti00~ to be
soon as may be after they are made and if either House: of p&h,,t,
Parliament resolves that the regulations be annulled they
shall thereupon cease to have effect but without prejudice
to anything previously done thereunder or to the making of
new regulations.

0 ration of 49. Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to prevent
p terehemes.

an employer from operating any private scheme providing,
for any person who is or has been employed by him, bene-
fits of any kind whether similar to benefit under this Act or
otherwise.

50. (1) In any case where- Proteaion of
contributions in
certain -.

(a) any warrant of distress is executed against the
property of an employer and the property is seized or
sold in pursuance of the execution; or

(6) on the application of a secured creditor the
property of an employer is sold,

the proceeds of the sale of the property shall not be dis-
tributed to any person entitled thereto until the court
ordering the sale has made provision for the payment of any
amounts due in respect of contributions payable by the
employer during the twelve months immediately preceding
the date of the order.

(2) For the purposes of this section, the expression
"employer" includes any company in liquidation under the
provisions of the Companies Act.

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Provisions as to
commencement of

51. (1) In this Act the expression "the appointed
insurance under day

n means, subject to the following provisions of this sec-
this AC~ . tion, such day as the Governor-General may by order pub-

lished, in the Gazette appoint and different days may be
appointed for different provisions or different purposes of
this Act and for the same provision for the same purpose in
relation to the different cases or classes of case.

(2) Any order made under subsection (1) of this sec-
tion may contain such incidental or supplementary provi-
sions as appear to the Governor-General to be necessary or
expedient for the orderly implementation of the different
provisions and purposes of this Act.

Validity of
regulations made.

52. The Social Security (Benefits) (Maternity)
S.R. 0.43/1973. Regulations, 1973 made under sections 29, 30 and 31 shall

be deemed to be and are deemed to have been properly
and validly made and all acts done and all payments made
on or after the 24th day of September, 1973 in respect of
maternity benefits to wives of insured persons are declared
to have been validly and properly made and are hereby con-
firmed.

FIRST SCHEDULE. Section 4(1)

Constitution and Proceedings of the Social Security Board of
Control.

1. The Board shall consist of seven persons appointed by
the Governor-General of whom-

(a ) one shall be the Director, or in his absence his
deputy;

( 6 ) two shall represent Government;

(c) two shall represent employers; and

(d) two shall represent employed persons.

2. The members representing Government shall be
appointed by the Governor-General on the advice of the Minister.

3. The members representing employers shall be appointed
after consultation with such associations of employers, or such

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person or bodies, as appear to the Governor-General likely to pro-
duce representation for employers generally throughout Antigua
and Barbuda.

4. The members representing employed persons shall be
appointed after consultation with such trade unions, or association
of trade unions, as appear to the Governor-General to be represen-
tative of employees generally throughout Antigua and Barbuda.

5. The Governor-General shall designate two representative
members of the Board to be chairman and vice-chairman.

6. The representative members of the Board shall hold
office for such period not exceeding three years as may be deter-
mined by the Governor-General. Any member of the Board shall
be eligible for re-appointment.

7. A member of the Board may at any time, by notice in
writing addressed to the Minister, resign his office; and if a mem-
ber becomes, in the opinion of the Governor-General, unfit to
continue in office or incapable of performing his duties, the
Governor-General shall in such manner as he thinks fit declare
the office of the member vacant.

8. The quorum for any meeting of the Board shall be three
including the chairman or deputy chairman, one of whom shall
preside at all meetings; the Director or his deputy, unless exclud-
ed by law, shall be present at all meetings; and the Board may act
notwithstanding any vacancy in its membership.

9. A substitute member may be appointed by the Minister
after consultation with the appropriate body, for any one meeting
which a member is unable to attend.

10. The decision of the Board shall be by a majority of votes,
and in the event of an equality of votes the chairman presiding at
the meeting shall have a casting vote.

11. Minutes of each meeting shall be kept in proper form
by such officer of the Board as the Board may appoint for the pur-
pose, and shall be confirmed by the Board at its next meeting and
signed by the chairman or deputy chairman as the case may be.

12. The Board may co-opt any one or more persons to
attend any particular meeting of the Board for the purpose of
advising or assisting the Board, but no such co-opted person shall
have any right to vote.

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34 CAP. 408) Social Security

13. If any member of the Board or other person present at
a meeting of the Board is directly or indirectly interested in any
contract or proposed contract or other matter he shall, at the
meetjng and as soon as is practicable after the commencement of
the meeting, disclose the fact of his interest and shall not take part
in the discussion, consideration or voting on such contract or
other matter.

14. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Board shall
have power to regulate its own proceedings.

SECOND SCHEDULE Section 2 (1).

Insurable employments.

1. Employment in Antigua and Barbuda under any con-
tract of service or apprenticeship, written or oral, and whether
expressed or implied.

2. Employment as aforesaid outside Antigua and Barbuda
of a person domiciled in or having a place of residence in Antigua
and Barbuda-

(a) as master or member of the crew of any ship regis
tered in Antigua and Barbuda or of any other British ship or
vessel of which the owner or (if there is more than one
owner) the managing owner, or manager resides or has his
principal place of business in Antigua and Barbuda, or in any
other capacity on board any such ship or vessel, or

(6) as pilot, commander, navigator or member of the
crew of any aircraft registered in Antigua and Barbuda, or in
any other capacity on board any such aircraft:
Provided that, in either case, the employment in that other

capacity is for the purposes of the ship, vessel or aircraft, or the
crew; or of any passenger or cargo or mails carried thereby.