APPENDIX 9
THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
OLD AGE AND MATERNITY INSURANCE SCHEME
SICKNESS. DISABLEMENT
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Article 1.
REGULATIONS ON LABOUR INSURANCE FOR
THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.
CHAPTER 1: GENERAL.
The present Regulations on labour insurance are drawn up to protect the health of employee-workers and to alleviate their particular difficulties and worries as far as national economic conditions permit.
Article 2. The prosent Regulations shall be carried out experimentally in larger enterprises and shall be enforced more extensively when experience and results have been secured. Temporarily they shall be applied to enterprises of the following categories:
(a) Public, semi-oublic, and private factories and
mines employing one hundred or more workers and employees and their subordinate units and ad- ministrative offices;
(b) Industrial and subordinate units of the railways,
navigation enterprises, posts and tolegraph, and banks.
Article 3. In enterprises employing under a hundred workers and employees, matters relating to labour insurance shall be discussed and settled in collective agreements between the administrative side or the employer and the trade union basic committee in accordance with the spirit of the present Regulations and the circumstances of the enterprise.
Article 4. The present Regulations shall apply to all workers and employees in enterprises where labour is employed irrespective of nationality, race, age, or sex. Those who have been deprived of their citizenship, however, shall be excluded.
Article 5. If, as a result of military operations, produc- tion has not been resumed, or if there are special finan- cial difficulties, enterprises obliged by the present Regulations to operate the labour insurance scheme may post- pone it if the administrative side or the employer has secured the consent of the trade union basic committee and the approval of the local People's Government.
CHAPTER II: THE COLLECTION AND CUSTODY OF
LABOUR INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS.
Article 6. All labour insurance charges fixed in the present Regulations shall be borne by the administrative side or the employer of the enterprise that undertakes labour in- surance. Part of them shall be paid directly (to the A. C.F.L.) by the administrative side of the enterprise or