The service of carriage and delivery of goods or food by any person by means of any motor vehicle or any other conveyance owned by him, or managed, maintained or operated by that person, in any form of arrangement with the owner or lessor of the motor vehicle or other conveyance, or without using any motor vehicle or other conveyance; and whether for hire or reward or for any other valuable consideration ormoney’s worth or otherwise.
1. In response to the Self-Employed Social Security Act 2017 (Act 789), the Government has gazetted three relevant subsidiary legislation on 21 September 2021, which will come into force on 1 October 2021.
2. Nowadays, even walking to deliver food is covered by SOCSO
3. In principle, the above subsidiary legislation will require
✅ Self-employed Service Providers Carrying and Delivering Goods and Food (“Relevant Persons”)
✅ be registered under the Self-Employed Social Security Act 2017
✅ and to make contributions
✅ so that if they suffer an accident (whether caused by a third party or not), they will be able to receive compensation.
4. The Amended of First Schedule Order, which also allows the Relevant Persons:
👉 to use “any other means of transport”, or
👉 not to use any motor vehicle or other means of transport to provide for the handling and delivery of goods or foodstuffs 🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼