Cap. 318 Art. 6Persons who are deemed not to be self-employed.

(1) For the purposes of this Act, a person who is not an employed person shall also not be deemed to be a self-employed person or a self-occupied person if such person is -

(a) (deleted by Act XI. 2003.3.)

(b) receiving full-time education or training in an educational institution recognised by the Government in terms of the Education Act, whether or not any form of remuneration or allowance is being paid to him during such time in direct or indirect relationship to such education or training unless such remuneration is being paid to him as a self-occupied person; or

(c) a person who was born before the 1st day of January, 1927, and who, prior to the 1st day of April, 1978, was not liable to pay a contribution under the National Insurance Act, as in force prior to the date of the commencement of this Act, and who, at any time after the said 1st day of April, 1978, was not self-occupied; or

(d) with effect from the 5th January 2008, a person in receipt of a pension (other than an Injury Pension) payable under this Act and who is not gainfully occupied: Provided that a widow who, notwithstanding the fact that she is still self-occupied, retains her right to Widows’ Pension under this Act by virtue of sub-article (2) of article 32 and article 41, shall, nonetheless, be considered as a self-occupied person for the purposes of this Act; or

(e) a person in excepted employment in terms of paragraph 8 of Part II of the First Schedule;

(f) in receipt of Social Assistance payable under this Act.

(2) For the purposes of this Act where any of the categories of persons mentioned in paragraphs (a), (b) and (e) of sub-article (1) are self-occupied, such persons shall be considered as self-occupied persons.