Sole Proprietors excluded from UIF according to which section of the UIF act?

[cppgenius]

Newretailer, the emphasis lies in what you register as. In other words, a sole proprietor needs to register as an EMPLOYER if he has employees working for him, but he does not have to register as an EMPLOYEE because the employer cannot be an employee of himself. So you are excluded from paying over uif on your own income as a sole proprietor, but you still have to pay over the contributions deducted from the salaries of your employees (including the 1% contributed by yourself as an employer of that employees)

[Dave A]

If you want to register on-line though, they want a business registration number, which is not applicable for sole proprietors.

Just put in your ID number - it used to work for me.

Or did this change?

That I don't know - but if you don't try you won't find out