National Insurance Contributions and Statutory Payments Act 2004

2 Payment of Class 1 contributions: Northern Ireland

(1) Paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7) (method of paying Class 1 contributions) is amended as follows.

(2) In sub-paragraph (3) (deduction of contributions from earnings) for “sub-paragraph (4)” substitute “sub-paragraphs (3A) to (5)”.

(3) After that sub-paragraph insert—

“(3A) Sub-paragraph (3B) applies where a person (“the employee”) who is employed by a particular employer (“the employer”) receives earnings in a form other than money (“non-monetary earnings”) from the employer in a tax year.

(3B) If and to the extent that regulations so provide, the employer may recover from the employee, in the prescribed manner, any primary Class 1 contributions paid or to be paid by him on the employee’s behalf in respect of those earnings.”

(4) In sub-paragraph (4) (contributions in respect of ex-employees), in paragraph (b) for “earnings” to the end substitute “or in the next tax year non-monetary earnings.”

(5) In sub-paragraph (5) (recovery of contributions in a case where sub-paragraph (4) applies) omit from “or” at the end of paragraph (a) to the end.