Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) Act 1999

28 (1) Section 162 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (payment of contributions into National Insurance Fund, etc.) is amended as follows.

(2) For subsection (4) there is substituted—

“(4) There shall be paid into the National Insurance Fund—

(a) so much of any interest recovered by the Inland Revenue by virtue of paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to the Contributions and Benefits Act or paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to that Act as remains after the deduction by them of any administrative costs attributable to its recovery,

(b) the amounts apportioned to the Secretary of State under sub-paragraph (6) of paragraph 7 of Schedule 1 to the Contributions and Benefits Act in respect of the penalties mentioned in that sub-paragraph, and

(c) so much of any penalty otherwise imposed by virtue of that paragraph and recovered by the Inland Revenue as remains after the deduction by them of any administrative costs attributable to its recovery.”

(3) In subsection (4A), for “Secretary of State” there is substituted “Inland Revenue”.