PART IVMEMBERS OF STAFF

Members of Staff17

Provided that the Laboratory has established a social security scheme, which the Secretary of State considers to provide adequate benefits, the Director-General andthe established members of staff of the Laboratory shall enjoy exemptions whereby for the purposes of the enactments relating to social security, including enactments in force in Northern Ireland—

i

services rendered for the Laboratory by them shall be deemed to be excepted from any class of employment in respect of which contributions or premiums under those enactments are payable, but

ii

no person shall be rendered liable to pay any contribution or premium which he would not be required to pay if those services were not deemed to be so excepted.