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Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

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4. Establishment of National Insurance Corporation

(1) The body corporate constituted under section 4(1) of the repealed National Insurance Act, 1978, as the National Insurance Board is preserved and continues in existence as a body corporate for the purposes of this Act but is to be known on the coming into force of this Act, as the National Insurance Corporation.

(2) The corporate identity and the rights and obligations of the body corporate are not affected by the change of name.

(3) The Corporation shall take over, manage, maintain and discharge all assets, liabilities and obligations including all actionable claims held or incurred by the National Provident Fund Board.

(4) The Corporation shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and shall in the corporate name be capable of entering into contracts, of suing and of being sued, of purchasing or otherwise acquiring, holding, leasing, charging, alienate real or personal property, of lending or borrowing money, and of doing or performing all such acts as bodies corporate may by law do or perform.

(5) The Corporation shall have a Head Office in the City of Castries and may establish other offices within the State as they consider desirable.

(6) Service on the Corporation of any notice, order or other document shall be executed by delivering or by sending the same by registered post addressed to the Director, at the Head Office of the Corporation.

(7) All deeds and agreements relating to the property assets or monies of the Fund shall be signed and sealed by the Board under a resolution and shall be authenticated by the signature of the chairperson and Director or of such other person as the Board may appoint.

(8) The Seal of the Corporation shall be kept in the custody of the Director and shall not be affixed to any instrument except by a resolution of the Board, and the sealing of any instrument shall be authenticated in the manner described in subsection (7).

(9) The Corporation shall be responsible for administering the Fund in accordance with this Act.

4. Establishment of National Insurance Corporation

5. National Insurance Board

6. Minister's powers and Board's duty to give advice and submit annual reports

7. Committees of the Board

9. Power of Board to enter into arrangements with public authorities

10. Appointment, duties and powers of Director

11. Termination of Director's appointment and resignation

12. Deputy Director

13. Board to appoint Secretary

15. Appointment of other officers

16. Appointment of Legal, Medical Officers and other Advisors

18. Declaration of secrecy

19. Present employees retained

20. Investment Committee

21. Investment of surplus moneys

22. Accounts and financial statements

23. Board to submit financial statement for laying before House

24. Actuarial review

25. Approval of borrowing by Minister and of the House for guarantee of any borrowing

26. Persons insured

27. Regulations for persons not falling under section 26

28. Liability to make deductions and contributions

29. Exceptions from liability to make contribution

30. Regulations for contributions and exemptions

31. Liability of person providing employees to others

32. Deductions from wages

33. Payment of contributions

34. Surcharge for late payment

35. Crediting of unpaid contributions

36. Employment by more than one employer

37. Contributions and other payments where benefit drawn

38. Contributions or benefits to be inalienable

39. Regulations relating to payment and collection of contributions

40. Contributions exempt from Income Tax Act

42. Entitlement to benefit

43. Contribution credits during receipt of short-term benefit

44. Conditions for sickness benefit

45. Conditions for invalidity benefit

46. Calculation of day of incapacity for work

47. Regulations for sickness and invalidity benefits

48. Maternity grant and allowance

49. Entitlement to maternity allowance

50. Regulations for maternity allowance

51. Calculation of daily rate of maternity allowance

52. Unmarried woman and maintenance under Affiliation Act

53. Hospitalisation grant

54. Scheme of medical insurance

55. Survivor's benefit

56. Survivor's pension and grant

57. Regulations relating to survivor's benefits

58. Matters affecting entitlement to age pension

59. Entitlement to age grant

60. Regulations concerning age pensions and grants

61. Funeral grant

62. Employment injuries

63. Presumptions regarding employment injury

64. Conditions where employment injury benefit not payable

65. Regulations for employment Injury

66. Regulations for treating public servants as insured persons

67. Modification or repeal of Public Service Pension Scheme

68. Regulations for mariners and aircraft personnel

69. Regulations re wives or widows of mariners and aircraft personnel

70. Application for registration

71. Reciprocal agreements with other countries

72. Regulations for exempted schemes

73. Adjudication and appeals

74. Unpaid contributions to rank as privileged debt

75. Joint liability of firm and officers

76. Certified copy as evidence

77. Civil proceedings

78. Execution and enforcement of judgement in certain circumstances

79. Garnishment

80. Joint liability of third parties in civil proceedings

81. Recovery by way of distress warrant

83. Recovery of contributions in proceedings under this Act

84. Proceedings against employer for benefit lost by default

85. Disclosure of information by Inland Revenue Department

86. Proceedings to be in Director's name or person authorised

87. Members of Board, Tribunal or Investment Committee not disqualified from membership of Parliament

88. Exemption from taxes

89. Private schemes

90. Assessment of damages against employer

91. Regulations

92. Power to remove difficulties

2. Interpretation

3. Establishment of National Insurance Fund

8. Validity of Board's actions and protection of members

17. Transfers from the Public Service and vice versa

65A. Economic relief programme

65B. Entitlement under an economic relief programme

65C. Conditions under an economic relief programme

65D. Claim for economic relief

65E. Payment under an economic relief programme

65F. Grounds for ceasing payment

65G. Regulations for economic relief programme

82. Offences and penalties