Bermuda Consolidated Legislation

 

BERMUDA STATUTORY INSTRUMENT

SR&O 14/1971

HOSPITAL INSURANCE (DEDUCTIONS) REGULATIONS 1971

[made under section 40 of the Hospital Insurance Act 1970 [title 18 item 9] and brought into operation on 1 April 1971]

Interpretation

1 In these Regulations—

"compulsorily insurable" in relation to any person, means a person in respect of whom an employer is required to effect a contract of hospital insurance in pursuance of section 20 of the Hospital Insurance Act 1970 [title 18 item 9].

General rate of deductions

2 (1) Where an employer has effected a contract of hospital insurance in respect of an employee in pursuance of section 20 of the Hospital Insurance Act 1970 [title 18 item 9], he shall be entitled to make deductions from the salary, wages or other remuneration payable to that employee—

(a) where the employee is paid weekly, at a rate not exceeding $10.24 per week; or

(b) where the employee is paid monthly, at a rate not exceeding $44.35 per month.

(2) The provisions of paragraph (1) shall apply mutatis mutandis to a contract of hospital insurance effected in respect of the non-employed wife of an employee.

[regulation 2 amended by BR 23/1998 effective 1 April 1998]

Termination of employment; deductions

3 (1) Where, during the course of a month, an employee ceases to be compulsorily insurable by any employer by virtue of the termination of his employment, the employer shall be entitled to make deductions from the salary, wages or other remuneration payable to that employee at a rate not exceeding $10.24 for each week or part of a week for which he has been employed during that month and for any period of extended cover for which the employer is liable to pay a premium in pursuance of regulation 5 of the Hospital Insurance (Cover) Regulations 1971 [title 18 item 9(j)].

(2) Paragraph (1) shall apply mutatis mutandis to deductions in respect of a non-employed wife who ceases to be compulsorily insurable by her husband's employer.

[regulation 3 amended by BR 23/1998 effective 1 April 1998]