Systems Of Social Security

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Milward Press

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491_9781406773071

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PREFACE The present publication is the first of a series of Handbooks on national systems of social security prepared by Governments according to a plan drafted by. the International Labour Office. It is appropriate that this initial handbook should describe the New Zealand system, since the Act of 1938 creating that system has, more than any other law, determined the practical meaning of social security, and so has deeply influenced the course of legis lation in other countries. The Office renders thanks to the New Zealand Government for supplying the handbook and thereby contributing to the international fund of knowledge on social security. This new series will serve several purposes. It presents, for each country, the entire social security legislation analysed in sufficient detail for the reader to understand how the system works. It follows a uniform plan, so that the reader may easily compare the different ways in which national systems attain similar objectives. The terms and classification used in the plan contri bute to the development of a recognised international methodology of social security. The series will supply the fund of information required by the International Labour Organisation when it addresses itself to the task of revising its numerous social insurance Conventions in the light of present-day concepts and practice. The project has been approved by the Committee of Social ftfBtirity Experts of the International Labour Office, the members 3f which have promised their help in its execution. The expediency of presenting as a whole the social security legislation of a country follows from the general recognition that the several schemes of social insurance, social assistance and the like have a common objective and that, for a fair appreciation of a nations effort to create social security, the complete picture is necessary. The Office was faced with the initial difficulty that there does not yet exist an internationally accepted definition of s

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