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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 318.03
SOCIAL SECURITY (ARMED FORCES) ORDER
12th May, 1956
GOVERNMENT NOTICE 294 of 1956, as amended by Order dated 9th
October, 1957, and Legal Notice 113 of 1975.
Title.
Forces) Order.
Agreement.
Annexe to this Order shall have full force and effect; and the Social
Security Act shall have effect subject to the modifications required
therein for the purpose of giving effect to those provisions.
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ANNEXE
Memorandum of Agreement between the Admiralty, Army Council, Air Council, 
and the Minister of Emigration, Labour and Social Welfare
The Admiralty, the Army Council and the Air Council, on the one hand, and the
Minister of Emigration, Labour and Social Welfare on the other hand, have agreed as
follows:
Article 1
(1) Where a person who is over the age of fourteen years is at any time on or
after the 7th May, 1956 -
( a ) serving as a member of the Forces, or
( b ) undergoing training for a period of more than seventy-two consecutive
hours as a member of the Reserve Forces, and
( c ) in either case is not paying contributions under the Scheme of National
Insurance in Great Britain, in respect of his membership of such Forces,
he shall be insured under the Act and, subject to the provisions of this Agreement,
the Act shall apply to him as if his service or training were insurable employment,
and as if the Admiralty, Army Council or Air Council, as the case may be, were his
employer.
(2) For the purposes of this Agreement "the Forces" means the Naval, Military
or Air Forces of the Crown, raised in Malta, and the "Reserve Forces" mean the
Reserve Forces raised in Malta.
Article 2
The weekly rate of the contributions payable under the National Insurance
Act by an insured person of any of the classes set out in the first column of the
Schedule to this Agreement, by his employer, shall be the rate set out respectively
for that class in the second, third and fourth column of that Schedule.
Article 3
The amounts payable by the Admiralty, Army Council and Air Council
respectively on account of the contributions payable by members of the Forces and
Reserve Forces and their employers shall be calculated and paid in such manner and
at such dates as may be agreed upon between the Admiralty, Army Council and Air
Council, on the one hand, and the Minister of Emigration, Labour and Social
Welfare, on the other hand.
Article 4
(1) Any person who is discharged, cashiered, or otherwise dismissed from the
Forces in consequence of having been convicted on any proceedings under the Naval
Discipline Act, the Army Act or the Air Force Act, or by any Civil Court, shall be
disqualified from receiving unemployment benefit for the period of six weeks after
such discharge, cashiering or dismissal.
(2) A person who is discharged from the Forces at his own request shall not by
reason thereof be disqualified from receiving unemployment benefit on the ground
that he has voluntarily left his employment without just cause.
(3) For the purposes of any claim for unemployment benefit, a certificate
purporting to be signed by a person authorised in that behalf by the Admiralty, Army
Council or Air Council, as the case may be, as to the fact of any person having been
discharged, cashiered, or otherwise dismissed as mentioned in either of the
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foregoing paragraphs of this article and as to the date of the discharge, cashiering or
dismissal, shall be conclusive evidence thereof unless it is proved that the certificate
was not signed by a person so authorised as aforesaid.
Article 5
A person shall not be entitled to receive unemployment benefit or sickness
benefit for any day on which he is serving as a member of any of the Forces, or
undergoing training for a period of more than eight hours as a member of any of the
Reserve Forces.
Article 6
No injury benefit, disablement benefit or death benefit shall be payable
under the Act in respect of any accident happening to a person while he is serving as
a member of any of the Forces or undergoing training as a member of any of the
Reserve Forces.
Article 7
(1) If a person is entitled to receive a pension for disablement due to his service
in the Forces or Reserve Forces, and this pension includes an unemployability
supplement, he shall not be entitled to receive any benefit under the Act.
(2) If a person is entitled to receive a pension for disablement due to his service
in the Forces or Reserve Forces, and this pension includes an allowance for his wife,
and if he would be entitled but for this Agreement to receive an increase of benefit
under the Act for his wife, then he shall be entitled to receive only any amount by
which that allowance is less than that increase of benefit.
Article 8
If a widow is entitled to receive a pension on the ground that her husband’s
death was attributable to service in the Forces or Reserve Forces, and would be
entitled but for this Agreement to receive a widow’s pension under the Act, she shall
be entitled to receive only -
( a ) any amount by which the former pension (excluding any allowance for
children) is less than the latter pension (excluding any increase for
children); and
( b ) any amount by which an allowance for children included in the former
pension is less than an increase for children included in the former
pension;
and she shall be entitled to receive any amount specified in sub-paragraph ( b ) of this
Article even if she is entitled to receive nothing under sub-paragraph ( a ).
Article 9
Where any person is, on account of his being at sea or outside Malta, in the
course of his service as a member of the Forces or Reserve Forces, unable to perform
an act required to be done either forthwith or on the happening of a certain event or
within a specified time, he shall be deemed to have complied therewith if he
performs the act as soon as is reasonably practicable although after the happening of
the event or the expiration of the specified time.
Article 10
In the event of the termination of this Agreement, any rights acquired by a
person in accordance with its provisions shall be maintained and negotiations shall
take place for the settlement of any rights then in course of acquisition by virtue of
its provisions.
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Article 11
This Agreement shall have effect from the 7th May, 1956, and shall remain
in force for a period of one year from that date. Thereafter, it shall continue in force
from year to year unless notice of termination is given in writing by either party at
least six months before the expiry of any such yearly period.
Done at Valletta, Malta, this 12th day of May, 1956.
For the Admiralty (sgd.) Guy Grantham
Admiral
For the Army Council (sgd.) Brian Daunt
Major General
For the Air Council (sgd.) G. Nicholetts
Air Marshal
The Minister of Emigration, 
Labour and Social Welfare (ad int.) (sgd.) A. Barbara
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Weekly Rates of Contribution
SCHEDULE Substituted by:Order dated 9.10.57;
L.N. 113 of 1975.
Class of insured persons
Weekly rate of contribution payable
By insured 
person By employer
Out of the 
Consolidated 
Fund
Members of the Forces :
Persons over 19 years of age 58c 58c 58c
Boys and Girls between the ages
of 14 and 19 14c 14c 14c
