(1) In this Act
"Act of 1993" means the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1993;
"Collector-General" means the Collector-General appointed under section 851 of the Taxes Consolidation Act, 1997;
"contribution week" has the same meaning as it has in the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005;
"contribution year" means a year of assessment within the meaning of the Income Tax Acts;
"employed contributor" means an employed contributor, within the meaning of the Act of 1993, other than a person to whom (a) paragraph 12 of Part I of the First Schedule to the said Act, or (b) article 81(1), 82(1), 83(1), 86(1) or 88(1) of the Social Welfare (Consolidated Contributions and Insurability) Regulations, 1996 (S.I. No. 312 of 1996), applies;
"employment contribution" has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 1993;
"Fund" has the meaning assigned to it by section 2;
"levy" has the meaning assigned to it by section 3;
"Minister" means the Minister for Education and Science;
"reckonable e
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