S.L. 318.20 Art. 1Title and scope.

(1) The title of these regulations is the Equal Treatment in Occupational Social Security and other Pensions Schemes

Regulations.

(2) These regulations give effect to the relevant provisions of Directive 2006/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of the 5th July 2006 on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation (recast).

(3) The purpose of these regulations is to implement the principle of equal treatment for men and women in occupational social security and other pension schemes.

(4) These regulations shall be applicable to:

(a) members of the working population, including self-employed or self-occupied persons, persons whose activity is interrupted by illness, maternity, accident or involuntary unemployment and persons seeking employment, retired and disabled workers, and those claiming under them, in accordance with the provisions of applicable law, and, or practice;

(b) occupational schemes which provide protection against sickness, invalidity, old age, early retirement, industrial accidents, occupational diseases and unemployment;

(c) occupational schemes which provide for other social benefits, whether in cash or in kind, and in particular survivors’ benefits and family allowances if such benefits are accorded to employed persons, constituting a consideration paid by the employer to the worker by reason of the latter’s employment;

(d) pension schemes for particular categories of workers which provide for benefits payable by reason of the employment relationship with the public employer and established under the Malta Armed Forces Act, the

Police Act, the Prisons Act and the Pensions

Ordinance.

(5) These regulations shall not apply to:

(a) individual contracts for self-employed workers;

(b) schemes for self-employed workers having only one

(d) optional provisions of occupational schemes offered to participants individually to guarantee them -

(i) additional benefits, or

(ii) a choice of date on which the normal benefits for self-employed workers will commence or, a choice between several benefits;

(e) occupational schemes in so far as benefits are financed by contributions paid by workers on a voluntary basis.