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• National Insurance and Social Security 
• 1 Short title
• 2 Interpretation
• PART I The National Insurance Board
  • 3 Establishment and constitution of National Insurance Board
  • 4 Incorporation
  • 5 Affixing of seal and authentication of documents
  • 6 Remuneration of members
  • 7 Meetings of Board and procedure
  • 8 Power to appoint committees
  • 9 Power to delegate
  • 10 Protection of Board and its members
  • 11 Staff
• PART II Insured Persons and Contributions
  • 12 Insurance of persons employed under contracts of service in respect of benefits under section 21(1)
  • 12A Certain persons employed abroad
  • 13 Insurance of self-employed persons
  • 13A Insurance of persons temporarily employed outside Barbados
  • 14 Insurance for employment injury benefit
  • 14A Persons to be treated as employers
  • 15 Source of funds
  • 15A Payments to Fund by Government
  • 16 Exceptions for liability for, and crediting of, contributions
  • 17 Voluntary contributions
  • 18 Contributions of employed persons and employers
  • 18A Concession
  • 19 General provisions as to payment and collection of contributions etc.
  • 19A Board may increase insurable earnings
  • 20 Persons to be treated as employers
• PART IIA Health Service Contributions
  • 20A Health Service contribution
  • 20B Collection and disposal of Health Service contribution
  • 20C Recovery of Health Service contribution
  • 20D Commencement of this Part
• PART III Benefits
  • 21 Description of benefits
  • 21A Payment of a non-contributory old age pension
  • 22 Accidents happening while acting in breach of regulations, etc.
  • 23 Accidents happening while travelling in employer’s transport
  • 24 Accident happening while meeting emergency
  • 25 Rates of benefits etc.
  • 25A Board may increase benefits
  • 26 Benefits to be inalienable
  • 27 Proceedings by employee for benefit lost by employer’s default
• PART IV Extension of Insurance to Diseases, etc.
  • 28 Industrial diseases, and industrial injuries not caused by accident
  • 29 Application to prescribed diseases and injuries of provisions as to benefits and claims
• PART V Finance, Administration and Legal Proceedings
  • 30 Establishment of National Insurance Fund
  • 30A Unemployment Benefit Account
  • 31 Defrayment of initial expenditure and meeting of temporary insufficiency in Fund
  • 32 Expenses of Post Office
  • 33 Report and accounts to be submitted to Minister
  • 34 Review of operation of Act
  • 35 Determination of claims and question
  • 36 Administration of benefits
  • 37 Interim payments, arrears and repayments
  • 38 Inspectors
  • 39 General provisions as to offences and penalties
  • 40 Pretending to act under authority of Board
  • 41 General provisions as to prosecutions under Act
  • 42 Recovery of contributions on prosecutions under Act
  • 43 Civil proceedings to recover sums due to Fund
  • 43A Execution and enforcement of judgments in certain circumstances
  • 43B Garnishment
  • 43C Liability of director or manager
  • 43D Persons leaving Barbados
• PART VI Miscellaneous and General
  • 44 Crown servants
  • 45 Persons employed on board ships, vessels or aircraft
  • 46 Insured persons outside Barbados
  • 47 Accidents in course of illegal employment etc.
  • 48 Reciprocal agreements with other parts of Commonwealth
  • 49 Provisions as to commencement of insurance under this Act
  • 50 General provisions as to regulations and orders
  • 51 Workmen’s compensation to cease to be payable
  • 52 Measure of damages in action by injured person or dependants against employer
  • 53 Action by injured person or dependants against persons other than employer
  • 54 Interpretation for purposes of sections 52 and 53
  • 55 Exemption from tax