Clause 14

by deleting paragraph (c) of subsection (1) thereof and substituting therefor the following: —“(c)to provide for the classification of any employment, not being employment under a contract of service or apprenticeship, as an employment in respect of which contributions are payable under the provisions of this Ordinance;”;

by deleting the words “treated as” appearing in the fourth line of paragraph (d) of subsection (1) thereof and substituting therefor the words “deemed to be”;

by deleting the full-stop appearing at the end of paragraph (d) of subsection (1) thereof and substituting therefor a semi-colon;

by inserting immediately after paragraph (d) of subsection (1) thereof the following new paragraphs: —“(e)to require such persons as the Minister may specify who derive income from any trade, business, profession or vocation, or from any other source or sources as the Minister may prescribe, to contribute to the Fund in respect of such income:Provided that no such regulations may require any person to contribute to the Fund after he has attained the age of fifty-five years;

to provide that the Comptroller of Income Tax, appointed under the Income Tax Ordinance (Cap. 166), may transmit to the Board such information, documents or records as may be required to enable the incomes of the persons referred to in paragraph (e) of this subsection to be ascertained and to provide for the Board, its officers and servants, when dealing with such information, documents or records to be bound by the same conditions as to secrecy as are the persons mentioned in section 6 of that Ordinance;

to provide for members of the Fund to apply, assign or withdraw all or part of the contributions and interest payable to or standing to their credit in the Fund to or for the purpose of purchasing houses or flats for their own occupation in accordance with such schemes as the Minister may approve; and

to provide for rates of contributions, other than those specified in the Schedule to this Ordinance, in respect of employees declared by the President to be employees for the purposes of this Ordinance by notification in the Gazette under section 2 of this Ordinance.”;

by deleting all the words following the words “medical boards” appearing in the first line of paragraph (c) of subsection (2) thereof and substituting therefor the words “for the purpose of determining whether a member of the Fund is physically or mentally incapacitated”;

by deleting the words “by an employer” appearing in the second line of paragraph (f) of subsection (2) thereof; and

by deleting the expression “by employers,” appearing in the first line of paragraph (j) of subsection (2) thereof.