Skip to content
Back to the text

Supplemental Contributory Pensions Trust Act · s 9

Suggest a correction

Tell us what is wrong in this text. We check every suggestion against the official version before we change anything.

What is wrong?

The text as we hold it

Open the official text

s 9Voluntary contributions by self-employed person

(1)

Subject to the regulations or rules made under section 39, any self-employed person may at any time contribute voluntarily to the Trust.

Supplemental Contributory

Pensions Trust 18

(2)

Any self-employed person who chooses to pay voluntary contributions to the Trust shall pay to the Trust monthly in respect of himself a contribution of $17.50, of which $15 shall be credited to the person’s SCP account and $2.50 shall be paid to the survivorship protection fund.

(3)

The Board may on such terms and conditions authorise any self-employed person or class of self-employed persons to pay contributions under subsection (2) at other intervals not exceeding 3 months.

(4)

Where any self-employed person has paid any voluntary contribution under subsection (2), the Government shall match the person’s contribution with a contribution of $17.50, of which $15 shall be credited to the person’s SCP account and $2.50 shall be paid to the survivorship protection fund.

(5)

Any self-employed person may at any time contribute voluntarily to the Trust a sum additional to the contribution under subsection (2).

(6)

All voluntary contribution made by a self-employed person under subsection (5) shall be credited to his SCP account.

(7)

This section does not apply to any self-employed person who has received payment under section 20(1).