Persons to be insured

(1) Subject to this Act, every person who on or after the appointed day, being over the age of fourteen years and under the age of sixty-five years, is employed in insurable employment shall become insured under this Act, Provided that the Minister may by Order published in the Gazette prescribe that persons in any employment specified in such Order shall, notwithstanding that they are over the age of sixty-five years, be insurable against employment injury and against prescribed diseases for such length of time and on such conditions as the Minister may specify in that Order. (2) For the purpose of this Act, every employment specified in Part I of Schedule I shall be an insurable employment, unless it is an excepted employment, that is to say, an employment specified in Part II of that Schedule. (3) Regulations may provide for12 (a) the inclusion or exception of specified classes of persons for all or any specified purposes of this Act; (b) the classification of insured persons; (c) treating as the employment of an employed person any employment outside Belize in continuation of insurable employment in Belize; or (d) treating for the purposes of this Act or of such provisions thereof as may be prescribed the employment of any person as, (i) continuing during periods of holiday, incapacity for work or such other circumstances as may be prescribed; or (ii) ceasing in such circumstances as may be prescribed. (4) The Minister may by Order repeal, vary or amend all or any of the provisions of Schedule I.