The Redundant Mineworkers (Payments Schemes) (Amendment and Consolidation) Order 1996

Class 3 national insurance contributions

13.  –

(1) Subject to paragraph (3) below, the Secretary of State may pay to a coal industry employee who is eligible for payments under this Scheme in respect of any week of a kind mentioned in paragraph (2) below, and at such time as the Secretary of State considers appropriate, a sum not exceeding that which is required to reimburse the coal industry employee the cost to him of making a Class 3 national insurance contribution.

(2) A week is of a kind referred to in paragraph (1) above if it–

(a) fell in the period which commenced on 3rd January 1988 and expired on 23rd July 1989; or

(b) is a week commencing on or after 23rd July 1989 in which the coal industry employee was entitled to payments under Article 5 of this Scheme

and if in either case it fell in a period in which the coal industry employee had not made or been credited with sufficient national insurance contributions to secure his entitlement to state retirement pension at the rate at which he would have been entitled to receive that pension if he had made or been credited with national insurance contributions for each week falling wholly or partly within the period commencing on 3rd January 1988 and expiring on his attaining the age of 65 or, in the case of a woman, the age of 60

(3) The Secretary of State shall not make a payment under this Article in respect of any week unless he is satisfied that the contribution in question will be, or has been, paid by or on behalf of the coal industry employee.