Social Insurance (Rates of Contributions and Benefits, etc.) Ordinance, 2001

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Please note that this Ordinance has been repealed by Ordinance No. XXVII of 2002 - Social Insurance (Rates of Contributions and Benefits, etc.) Ordinance, 2002.

The Social Insurance (Rates of Contributions and Benefits, etc.) Ordinance, 2001

THE STATES, in pursuance of their Resolution of the 26th day of September, 2001[a], and in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 5, 6, 8, 19, 48(2), 49(4), 50(1), 57, 60, 61, 62 and 101 of the Social Insurance (Guernsey) Law, 1978, as amended[b], hereby order:-

Interpretation.

1. (1) In this Ordinance, except where the context otherwise requires-

"education" means full-time education at an establishment recognised by the Authority as being, or as being comparable to, a university, college or school;

"the Law" means the Social Insurance (Guernsey) Law, 1978, as amended;

"training" means full-time training at a course approved by the Authority;

and other expressions have the same meanings as in the Law.

(2) The Interpretation (Guernsey) Law, 1948[c], shall apply to the interpretation of this Ordinance throughout the Islands of Guernsey, Alderney, Herm and Jethou.

Percentage rates of primary and secondary Class 1 contributions.

2. (1) For the purposes of the Law-

(a) the percentage rate of a primary Class 1 contribution shall, subject to paragraph (b), be 4.5%;

(b) the percentage rate of a primary Class 1 contribution payable by a married woman who has elected not to pay a primary Class 1 contribution at the standard rate shall be 1.8%.

(2) For the purposes of the Law, the percentage rate of a secondary Class 1 contribution shall be 5.4%.

Upper weekly and upper monthly earnings limits.

3. For the purposes of the Law, the upper weekly earnings limit shall be £564 and the upper monthly earnings limit shall be £2,444.

Lower annual income limit.

4. For the purposes of the Law, the lower annual income limit shall be £8,320.

Percentage rates of Class 2 contributions.

5. For the purposes of the Law, the percentage rates of a Class 2 contribution shall be -

(a) in respect of any person other than a person to whom the following paragraphs of this section apply, 8.9%;

(b) in respect of a married woman who has, or is deemed to have, elected not to pay a social insurance contribution, 2.6%, being the self-employed married woman's health benefit contribution;

(c) in respect of an overseas voluntary contributor, being a person who is not resident in Guernsey and who, satisfying prescribed conditions, is desirous of paying Class 2 contributions under the Law, 6.3%.

Percentage rates of Class 3 contributions.

6. (1) For the purposes of the Law, the percentage rates of a Class 3 contribution shall be -

(a) in respect of an overseas voluntary contributor, being a person who is not resident in Guernsey and who, satisfying prescribed conditions, is desirous of paying contributions under the Law, 5.7%;

(b) in respect of a married woman who has, or is deemed to have, elected not to pay a social insurance contribution, 2.6%, being the non-employed married woman's health benefit contribution;

(d) in respect of all other persons, 8.3%.

(2) The percentage of a minimum Class 3 contribution payable in accordance with section 8(5) of the Law by a person who is normally in employed contributor's employment shall be 50%.

Rates and amounts of benefits.

7. (1) For the purposes of the Law, the weekly rate of each description of benefit set out in column 1 of Part I of the Schedule to this Ordinance shall be the rate specified in relation thereto in column 2, and the amounts by which that rate may be increased in respect of a child or children or an adult dependant, as the case may be, shall be the appropriate amounts specified in columns 3 and 4.

(2) For the purposes of the Law, where the extent of the disablement is assessed for the period to be taken into account as amounting to 20% or more, industrial disablement benefit shall be payable for that period at the appropriate weekly rate specified in Part II of the Schedule to this Ordinance.

(3) For the purposes of the Law, the amounts of death grant, maternity grant and survivor's grant shall be the appropriate amounts specified in relation thereto in Part III of the Schedule to this Ordinance.

The Guernsey Health Service Fund Allocation.

8. The amount of the Guernsey Health Service Fund Allocation in respect of each contribution year shall be the sum of the following amounts -

(a) 26.26% of the aggregate amount of primary and secondary Class 1 contributions (excluding secondary Class 1 contributions paid or payable in respect of employed persons who have attained pensionable age and are not liable to pay primary Class 1 contributions) paid or payable in respect of that year by or in respect of employed persons, other than employed persons to whom paragraph (b) relates;

(b) 36.11% of the aggregate amount of primary and secondary Class 1 contributions (excluding secondary Class 1 contributions paid or payable in respect of employed persons who have attained pensionable age and are not liable to pay primary Class 1 contributions) paid or payable in respect of that year by or in respect of employed persons (being women who are or have been married) where those Class 1 primary contributions have been paid or are payable at the reduced rate under and in accordance with regulations made under section 97 of the Law;

(c) 24.07% of the aggregate amount of Class 1 secondary contributions paid or payable in respect of that year in respect of employed persons who have attained pensionable age and are not liable to pay Class 1 primary contributions;

(d) the products of each percentage set against a rate of Class 2 contributions below and the aggregate of such contributions at that rate paid or payable in respect of that year by insured persons liable to pay contributions at one of those rates -

Rate of Class 2

Contribution Percentage

6.3% nil;

2.6% 100%;

8.9% 29.21%;

(e) the products of each percentage set against a rate of Class 3 contributions below and the aggregate of such contributions at that rate paid or payable in respect of that year by insured persons liable to pay contributions at one of those rates -

Rate of Class 3

Contribution Percentage

5.7% nil;

2.6% 100%;

1.0% 100%;

8.3% 31.33%.

Repeal.

9. The Social Insurance (Rates of Contributions and Benefits, etc.) Ordinance, 2000[d]is repealed.

Extent.

10. This Ordinance shall have effect in the Islands of Guernsey, Alderney, Herm and Jethou.

Citation.

11. This Ordinance may be cited as the Social Insurance (Rates of Contributions and Benefits, etc.) Ordinance, 2001.

Commencement.

12. (1) Sections 2 to 6 and 8 of this Ordinance shall come into force on the 1st day of January, 2002.

(2) Sections 7 and 9 shall come into force on the 7th day of January, 2002.

Section 7

SCHEDULE

RATES AND AMOUNTS OF BENEFITS

PART I

Benefit, other than industrial disablement benefit, death grant,

maternity grant and survivor's grant

table
Description of Benefit (1)	Weekly rate (2)	Increase for child (where payable) (3)	Increase for adult dependant (where payable) (4)
1. Industrial injury benefit	£81.06	£4.65	£43.44
2. Invalidity benefit	£93.18	£4.65	£48.90
3. Maternity allowance	£81.06	-	-
4. Old age pension:
(a) payable to a woman by virtue of her husband's insurance while he is alive	£68.75	-	-
(b) in any other case	£112.50	£9.00	£68.75
5. Sickness benefit	£81.06	£4.65	£43.44
6. Unemployment benefit	£81.06	£4.65	£43.44
7. Widowed parent's allowance	£111.00	9.00	-
8. Widow's pension	£111.00	-	-

PART II

Industrial disablement benefit

table
Degree of disablement	Weekly rate
100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20%	£98.90 £89.00 £79.10 £69.25 £59.35 £49.45 £39.55 £29.65 £19.80

PART III

Death grant, maternity grant and survivor's grant

table
Description of grant	Amount
1. Death grant, where the person in respect of whose death the grant is payable was, at death: (a) under the age of 3 years; (b) aged 3 but under the age of 6 years (c) aged 6 but under the age of 18 years (d) aged 18 years or more 2. Maternity grant 3. Survivor's grant	£106.00 £177.00 £265.00 £353.00 £227.00 £1,110.00

table
[a]	Article V of Billet d'État No. XIX of 2001.
[b]	Ordres en Conseil Vol. XXVI, p. 292; Vol. XXVII, pp. 238, 307 and 392; Vol. XXIX, pp. 24, 148 and 422; Vol. XXXII, p. 59; No. XII of 1993; Ordinance No. XIV of 1993 (Tome XXVI, p. 177); No. V of 1994; No.'s VI and XIII of 1995; No. VI of 1999; No. X of 2000; No. IX of 2001.
[c]	Ordres en Conseil Vol. XIII, p. 355.
[d]	Ordinance No. XVI of 2000.