Payment of contribution by insured self–employed persons

(1) Every insured self–employed person shall, within fourteen days after the end of a calendar month, pay in a manner acceptable to the Board all contributions payable by him for that month. The Board shall set up alternative payment modalities to specific sectors of self–employed (2) Where during the course of a calendar month the employment of a self–employed person ceases or is 262 Social Security interrupted because of sickness, employment injury, pregnancy, change of employment status, or other circumstances which might affect his liability to pay contributions for the whole month, he shall nevertheless, be liable to pay contributions in respect of that part of the month during which he was self–employed, that is, up to the day immediately preceding the date of cessation: Provided that a self–employed person shall not be liable to pay contributions as a self–employed person in respect of any period in which he is either in receipt of benefit, (with the exception of survivors’ benefits) or is liable to pay contribution as an employed person.