ACT No. XI of 2003 AN ACT to amend the Social Security Act, Cap. 318.

I assent.

G UIDO DE M ARCO

(L.S.)

President

3rd October, 2003

ACT No. XI of 2003

AN ACT to amend the Social Security Act, Cap. 318.

BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice and

consent of the House of Representatives, in this present Parliament

assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows>–

The title of this Act is the Social Security (Amendment) Act, Title.

2003 and it shall be read and construed as one with the Social Security

Act, hereinafter referred to as “the principal Act”.

For article 3 of the principal Act there shall be substituted the Substitution of

article 3 of the

following>–

principal Act.

“3. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, and save as

provided for in sub-article (2) of this article, every person who has

passed his sixteenth birthday, but not yet reached his retirement,

shall become insured under this Act either as an employed person,

or as a self-employed person or as a self-occupied person.

(2) With effect from 5th January, 2004, a married

person who is not legally separated or who has not been abandoned

by his spouse shall not be deemed to be a self-employed person>

Provided that, with effect from the coming into force of

this Act, any married person who is not legally separated or who

has not been abandoned by his spouse, and who prior to the 5th

January, 2004 was deemed to be a self-employed person, shall, if

he so elects, continue to be considered as a self-employed person.”.

In article 6 of the principal Act, paragraph (a) of sub-article

(1) thereof shall be deleted.

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 34 of the 24th September,

2003. A NTON T ABONE

Speaker

R ICHARD J. C AUCHI

Clerk to the House of Representatives