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National Health Service Contributions Act 1961

As Enacted Cited authorities 5 Cited in Amendments 3 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1961 c. 13
Year1961


National Health Service Contributions Act, 1961

(9 & 10 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 13

An Act to increase the rates of national health Service contributions and to amend the National Health Service Contributions Act, 1957, and for purposes connected therewith.

Most Gracious Sovereign,

We , Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom in Parliament assembled, towards providing such sums as may be required for the national health service in England and Wales, and in Scotland, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the increased contributions hereinafter mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

S-1 Higher rates of national health service contributions and supplementary provisions relating thereto

1 Higher rates of national health service contributions and supplementary provisions relating thereto

(1) In the National Health Service Contributions Act, 1957 (in this Act referred to as ‘the principal Act’), the provisions set out in the First Schedule to this Act shall be substituted, as from the appointed day, for the existing provisions of the First Schedule to that Act.

(2) As from the appointed day, any reference in the principal Act to a column or paragraph of the First Schedule to that Act shall be construed as a reference to the corresponding column or paragraph of the provisions substituted by the preceding subsection for the existing provisions of that Schedule.

(3) The provisions of the Second Schedule to this Act (which contains minor amendments of the principal Act) shall have effect.

(4) Subsection (6) of section three of the principal Act (which relates to the Crown) and section five of the principal Act (which relates to Northern Ireland) shall apply in relation to this Act as they apply in relation to that Act.

(5) There shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament any increase attributable to the provisions of this Act in—

(a ) the expenses so payable under subsection (3) of section four of the principal Act;

(b ) the sums so payable under subsection (4) of that section (which relates to financial adjustments with Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man).

(6) The National Health Service Contributions Act, 1958, is hereby repealed as from the appointed day.

(7) In this Act ‘the appointed day’ means such day as the Treasury may appoint by order made by statutory instrument, and any reference to the existing provisions of the First Schedule to the principal Act is a reference to the provisions substituted by the National Health Service Contributions Act, 1958, for the provisions of that Schedule as originally enacted.

S-2 Short title, citation and extent.

2 Short title, citation and extent.

(1) This Act may be cited as the National Health Service Contributions Act, 1961 ; and the National Health Service Contributions Act, 1957, and this Act may be cited together as the National Health Service Contributions Acts, 1957 and 1961.

(2) Without prejudice to the operation, in relation to any matters arising out of this Act, of any provisions of the National Insurance Acts, 1946 to 1960, relating to Northern Ireland, this Act, except subsection (4) of the preceding section, shall not extend to Northern Ireland.

S C H E D U L E S

FIRST SCHEDULE

Health Service Contributions Act,Provisions to be substituted in First Schedule to National 1957

Rates of National Health Service Contributions

Description of person

Weekly rate of contribution
s. d.

1. Employed men between the ages of 18 and 70, not including men over the age of 65 who have retired from regular employment

 2 8
1
2

2. Employed women between the ages of 18 and 65, not including women over the age of 60 who have retired from regular employment

 2 0
1
2

3. Employed boys and girls under the age of 18

 1 4
1
2

4. Employers

 7
1
2

5. Self-employed men between the ages of 18 and 70, not including men over the age of 65 who have retired from regular employment

 2 10

6. Self-employed women between the ages of 18 and 65, not including women over the...

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