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Provident Fund Act - Provident Fund (Exceptions) Regulations

LAWS OF TUVALU
2008 Revised Edition


PROVIDENT FUND (EXCEPTIONS) REGULATIONS


CAP. 32.08.5


Arrangement of Regulations


Regulation


1 Citation and Interpretation
2 Persons excepted from Liability
3 Application to Tuvaluans
4 Further provisions for exceptions on the grounds of low income


Supporting Documents
ENDNOTES


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PROVIDENT FUND (EXCEPTIONS) REGULATIONS MADE UNDER SECTION 13 OF THE PROVIDENT FUND ACT1


1 Citation and Interpretation


(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Provident Fund (Exceptions) Regulations.

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

"domestic servant" means a person employed in a private dwelling house only to perform domestic duties in that house for the occupant thereof;


"domicile" means the country where a person has a fixed and permanent home, not for a mere special and temporary purpose.


2 Persons excepted from Liability2


Notwithstanding anything in this Act a person shall, subject to the following Regulations, be excepted from liability for contributions on any earnings paid or received in respect of a period —


(a) before he attains school leaving age;




(g) after reaching the age of 50, having been entitled to benefit from the fund on three previous occasions.


3 Application to Tuvaluans


Regulation 2(c) shall not apply to any citizen of Tuvalu.


4 Further provisions for exceptions on the grounds of low income


(1) For the purposes of Regulation 2(d) —



(2) A person liable to pay contributions by virtue of sub-regulation (1) shall be eligible to claim a refund of contributions if in any financial year his earnings from the employment in question amount to less than $20.00 in six or more months.

ENDNOTES
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1 LN 17/1985, 18/1984 Amended by LN 10/1999
2 Amended by LN 10/1999


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