National Insurance Act 1965

Additional powers to make regulations.

63 Regulations for purposes of Part III.

(1) Provision may for the purposes of this Part of this Act be made by regulations—

(a) for treating a person's employment, where it begins or ends in the course of a contribution week or of an income tax week, as doing so at the beginning or end of the week;

(b) for disregarding changes in a person's employment due to the death of an employer or other causes, and for treating employment under the new employer as a continuation of that under the former employer, and treating any certificate issued to or election made by the former employer as issued to or made by the new employer;

(c) for disregarding temporary interruptions in a person's employment, and for treating the employment as continuing during the interruption;

(d) generally as to the circumstances in which a person's employment is or is not to be treated as having come to an end.

(2) Regulations may, in order to facilitate the computations needed to ascertain equivalent pension benefits for the purposes of section 58 or any other provision of this Act, convert the formula in section 57(1)(d) of this Act, as respects service before or service after 5th January 1964, or as respects both kinds of service, into a formula expressed in terms—

(a) of a minimum annual rate of pension for a period of service expressed in terms of weeks, or

(b) of a minimum rate of pension, as a rate for a week or month or other period shorter than a year, for a period of service expressed in terms of weeks,

adjusting the figures so as to admit of tabulation and so as to avoid fractional amounts or otherwise facilitate computation, and making special provision for a period of service which does not amount to a whole number of weeks and for a week of service which includes 5th January 1964.