Article 2

1. The compulsory old-age insurance scheme shall apply to manual and non-manual workers, including apprentices, employed in industrial or commercial undertakings or in the liberal professions, and to outworkers and domestic servants.


2. Provided that any Member may in its national laws or regulations make such exceptions as it deems necessary in respect of--

(a) workers whose remuneration exceeds a prescribed amount and, where national laws or regulations do not make this exception general in its application, any non-manual workers engaged in occupations which are ordinarily considered as liberal professions;

(b) workers who are not paid a money wage;

(c) young workers under a prescribed age and workers too old to become insured when they first enter employment;