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1. The compulsory sickness insurance system shall apply to manual and non-manual workers, including apprentices, employed by agricultural undertakings.
2. It shall, nevertheless, be open to any Member to make such exceptions in its national laws or regulations as it deems necessary in respect of
(a) temporary employment which lasts for less than a period to be determined by national laws or regulations, casual employment not for the purpose of the employer's trade or business, occasional employment and subsidiary employment;
(b) workers whose wages or income exceed an amount to be determined by national laws or regulations;
(c) workers who are not paid a money wage;
(d) out-workers whose conditions of work are not of a like nature to those of ordinary wage-earners;
(e) workers below or above age-limits to be determined by national laws or regulations;
(f) members of the employers' family.
3. It shall further be open to exempt from the compulsory sickness insurance system persons who in case of sickness are entitled by virtue of any laws or regulations, or of a special scheme, to advantages at least equivalent on the whole to those provided for in this Convention.