Employees' Social Security Act 1969
EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969
AKTA KESELAMATAN SOSIAL PEKERJA 1969
Act 4 · consolidated to 1 Oct 2024 · 177 pp
Socio-economic rights
Consolidated to 1 October 2024. Amendments made after that date are not in this text. Check the AGC record for later amendments.
What this does to artists
SOCSO for employees. Relevant to arts organisations, venues, galleries and production companies as employers, and to any artist who is in truth an employee.
What to read first
Section numbers read out of the AGC text itself
s.22Disablement benefit
s.6Contributions
s.22Disablement benefit
s.20Invalidity pension
s.15Benefits
Full arrangement of sections 149 sections · show / hide
Extracted from the AGC PDF on this page.
s.1Short title, extent, commencement and application
s.2Definitions
s.3Applicability
s.4Registration of industries
s.5All employees to be insured
s.6Contributions
s.7Principal employer to pay contributions in the first instance
s.8Recovery of contribution from immediate employer
s.9General provisions as to payment of contributions
s.9AContributions where industry or employee is not insured or registered
s.9BValidation of contribution collected
s.10Method of payment of contribution
s.11Employers to furnish returns and maintain registers in certain cases
s.12Inspectors, their functions and duties
s.12APowers of examination and search
s.12BObstruction to exercise of powers by an Inspector
s.12CPower to examine persons
s.13Determination of contributions in certain cases
s.13APower of Director General to ask for information and application for search warrant
s.14Recovery of contributions
s.14AInterest on contribution in arrears
s.15Benefits
s.16When person considered as suffering from invalidity
s.17When insured person eligible for invalidity pension
s.17AQualifying conditions for survivors’ pension
s.19Payment of invalidity pension
s.20Invalidity pension
s.20ASurvivors’ pension
s.21Invalidity grant
s.22Disablement benefit
s.23Presumption as to accident arising in the course of employment
s.24Accidents while travelling
s.25Accidents happening while meeting emergency
s.26Dependants’ benefit
s.28Occupational diseases
s.29Funeral benefit
s.30Constant-attendance allowance
s.31Liability of employer and his servant
s.32Determination of question of invalidity or disablement
s.32ADetermination of occupational diseases
s.33References to medical boards and appeals to appellate medical board
s.33AInsured person dies before medical board examination
s.34Review of decisions by medical board or appellate medical board
s.35Review of invalidity pension
s.36Review of dependants’ benefit
s.37Medical benefit
s.38Scale of medical benefit
s.39Establishment and maintenance of hospitals, etc
s.40Organization’s power to co-operate with existing institutions or promote measures for health, welfare, etc., of insured persons
s.41Benefit not assignable or attachable
s.43Persons not to commute cash benefits
s.44Persons not entitled to receive benefits in certain cases
s.45Claimant of disablement benefit or invalidity pension to observe conditions
s.46Recipients of disablement benefit to observe conditions
s.48Organization’s right where a principal employer fails or neglects to pay any contribution
s.49Suspension of invalidity pension
s.50Repayment of benefit improperly received
s.51Payment of amount of benefit outstanding at the time of the death of the insured person
s.52Employer not to reduce wages, etc
s.53Employer not to dismiss or punish employee during period of temporary disablement
s.54Claim for benefits
s.55Reporting of change in condition, etc
s.56Discretion to compute the qualifying period and the rate of monthly invalidity pension
s.57Facilities for physical or vocational rehabilitation
s.57AEducation benefit
s.57BOrganization to be responsible for the recovery and collection of repayments of educational loans
s.57CAppointment of collection agents
s.58Administration of the Social Security Scheme
s.59Chief Executive Officer
s.59AThe Social Security Organization
s.59BEstablishment of the Board
s.59CMinister shall appoint any person to act as Chairman
s.59DSixth Schedule to apply to Board
s.59ECessation of membership of Board
s.59FDisqualification
s.59GApplication of the Public Authorities Protection Act
s.59HPublic servants and public officers
s.59IBoard to give effect to Minister’s directions
s.59JDelegation of power
s.59KAdministrative control of officers and servants by Director General
s.59LAppointment of officers and servants
s.59MSetting up divisions, regional offices, etc
s.59NPower to dispose of staff questions
s.59OPower to make staff rules
s.59PCommittees
s.59QDisciplinary Committee
s.59RDiscipline of officers
s.59SEstablishment of Disciplinary Appeal Board
s.59TPower to make disciplinary rules
s.59UImposition of surcharge
s.59VEstablishment of Promotion Board
s.59WEstablishment of Promotion Appeal Board
s.64Fees and allowances
s.68Social Security Fund
s.69Administration of the Fund
s.70Acceptance of grants, donations, etc
s.71Purposes for which the Fund may be expended
s.72Expenditure on administration
s.72AWithdrawal from Fund for loans or other financing facilities
s.73Administrative expenditure Government’s responsibility
s.74Holding of property, etc
s.74APower of the Organization to establish or take over companies
s.75Investment of Funds
s.75AInvestment Panel
s.76Raising of loans
s.77Budget estimates
s.78Accounts
s.79Audit
s.80Annual report
s.81Annual report and audited accounts
s.82Valuation of assets and liabilities
s.83Constitution of Social Security Appellate Board
s.84Matters to be decided by the Board
s.85Institution of proceedings, etc
s.86Commencement of proceedings
s.87Powers of Social Security Appellate Board
s.88Appearance by legal practitioners, etc
s.89Benefit not admissible unless claimed in time
s.90Reference to High Court
s.91Appeal
s.92Stay of payment pending appeal
s.93Punishment for false information
s.94Punishment for failure to pay contributions, etc
s.94ACourt’s order in respect of contributions due and payable to the Organization
s.94BTrial for more than one offence
s.94CCopy of entry to be prima facie evidence
s.95Prosecution
s.95ACompounding of offences
s.96Insured person not entitled to more than one benefit
s.96ADependant not entitled to both survivors’ pension and dependants’ benefit for the same period
s.97Exemption of industry or class of industries
s.98Exemption of persons or class of persons
s.99Organization to make representation
s.100Exemption of industries belonging to Government or local authority
s.101Exemption from one or more provisions of the Act
s.102Contributions, etc., due to Organization to have priority over other debts
s.103Exercise of powers and functions of the Organization
s.103ADisposal of documents after more than three years
s.105Power of the Minister to make regulations
s.106Duty of Board to review benefits
s.106ARates of benefit
s.107Addition of benefits
s.108Power to remove difficulties
s.108AJoint and several liability of directors
s.109Recovery of contribution, etc
s.110Powers of Director General
s.111Organization to deal with authorized person
s.112Benefit for two or more successive accidents
s.112AElectronic submission of documents
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