The Social Security (Contributions and Credits) (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Regulations 1985

• Citation: S.I. 1985/1398
• Sections: 7

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Contributions and Credits) (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Regulations 1985 and shall come into operation on 6th October 1985.

(2) In these regulations—

“ the Act ” means the Social Security Act 1975;

“ the principal regulations ” means the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 1979 ;

and other expressions have the same meanings as in that Act or, as the case may be, those Regulations.

Section 2 Transitional provisions for the assessment of Class 1 contributions

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Section 3 Amount of Class 3 contributions payable in respect of the year 1985/86

(1) Subject to section 8(2C) of the Act the amount of a Class 3 contribution payable in respect of the year commencing 6th April 1985 shall be—

(a) in respect of the first 26 contribution weeks of that year £4.65;

(b) in respect of the last 26 contribution weeks of that year £3.40.

(2) Where contributions paid by or credited to a person in respect of the year commencing 6th April 1985 are insufficient to enable him to satisfy the contribution conditions of entitlement to benefit by acquiring the requisite earnings factor for that year, then, subject to regulations 27 and 28 of the principal regulations, he may not pay more than 26 Class 3 contributions at the amount of £3.40 and, where he has paid or there are payable Class 2 contributions at the rate of £3.50 (being the rate coming into force on 6th October 1985) he may only pay a number of such Class 3 contributions which, when added to the number of such Class 2 contributions, does not exceed 26.

(3) For the purposes of Class 3 contributions in respect of the year commencing 6th April 1985, the contribution week commencing 31st March 1985 shall be treated as falling wholly in the year commencing 6th April 1984.

Section 4 Modification of the Act

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Section 5 Amendment of the principal regulations

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Section 6 Minor and consequential amendment of the principal regulations

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Section 7 Amendment of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975

In regulation 3(2)(b) of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975 for the words “in section 4(6)(a)” there shall be substituted the words “in relation to the highest current primary earnings bracket in section 4(6B)” .