Classification of insured persons

(1) Subject to the provisions of the Benefit Regulations, an employed person shall be insured– (a) for all purposes of the Act, if he is not a retired person; (b) only for the purposes of sections 12 and 17 of the Act (relating to benefit in respect of injury and prescribed diseases), if he is a retired person. (2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) of this Regulation, a person is deemed to be a retired person if after attaining the age of sixty he has received retirement benefit in accordance with the Benefit Regulations or a refund of contribution under Regulation 9 of the Contributions Regulations (transitory provision for refund of contribution to certain (3) A person being a person ordinarily resident in Belize who– (a) is temporarily employed outside Belize in continuation of his insurable employment in Belize as an employed person; or (b) holds a valid certificate of voluntary insurance, shall be insured for the purposes of the Act as prescribed in the Voluntary Contributors and Persons Abroad Regulations.