R&O – 165/2004
Social Security
(Married Women) (Amendment No. 4) (Jersey)
Order 2004
Made 21st December 2004
Coming into force 22nd
December 2004
THE EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL SECURITY COMMITTEE, in pursuance of Articles 45
and 51 of the Social Security (Jersey) Law 1974[1] and Article 18 of the Social
Security (Amendment No. 14) (Jersey) Law 2000,[2] orders as follows –
1 Interpretation
In this Order, “principal
Order” means the Social Security (Married Women) (Jersey) Order 1974.[3]
2 Amendment
of Article 2
(1) For
Article 2(1) of the principal Order there shall be substituted the
following paragraph –
“(1) A woman may elect once not to
be liable, and thereafter shall not be liable, to pay contributions under the
Law in respect of any period during which she is married.”.
(2) Article 2(3)(b)
of the principal Order shall be amended –
(a) by
deleting the colon;
(b) by
revoking the proviso.
(3) The
amendment of Article 2(3)(b) of the principal Order by paragraph (2)
of this Article shall not prevent a married woman who has before the
commencement of this Order elected not to pay contributions from cancelling
that election on one occasion after this Order comes into force.
3 Citation
and commencement
(1) This
Order may be cited as the Social Security (Married Women) (Amendment
No. 4) (Jersey) Order 2004.
(2) This
Order shall come into force on the day after it is made.
M.N. DE LA HAYE
Greffier of the States.
[1] Recueil des Lois, Volume 1973-1974, pages
354 and 356.
[2] Recueil des Lois, Volume 2000, page 892.
[3] Nos. 6080, 7316,
64/2001 and 79/2004.