The Social Security (Contributions and Industrial Injuries) (Canada) Order 1998

Article 6 Government and Similar Employment

(1) This Convention shall not affect the provisions of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 18 April 1961 or the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 24 April 1963.

(2) Subject to paragraph (1), where any person who is in the Government Service of one Party is employed in the territory of the other Party, the legislation of the former Party concerning liability for contributions shall apply to him or her as if he or she were employed in its territory.

(3) Subject to paragraphs (1) and (2), where a person is employed in a diplomatic mission or consular post of one Party in the territory of the other Party, or in the private service of an official of such a mission or post, the legislation of the latter Party concerning liability for contributions shall apply to him or her as if he or she were employed in its territory, unless within three months of the entry into force of this Convention, or within three months of the beginning of the employment in the territory of the latter Party, whichever is later, he or she chooses to be insured under the legislation of the former Party, provided that he or she had been so insured at any time before the commencement of the employment at that mission or post. Where, under this paragraph, a person has the right to choose to be insured under the legislation of the United Kingdom but does not choose to do so, he or she shall not be liable, nor entitled, to pay contributions under that legislation.