The Education (Student Loans) (Repayment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

Intermediate employers

43.—(1) This regulation applies where a direction has been given by HMRC under section 691 of the 2003 Act (PAYE: mobile UK workforce) and for the purposes of this regulation—

(a) “the principal employer” means the person specified as the relevant person in the direction; and

(b) “the immediate employer” means the person specified as the contractor in that direction.

(2) Where an employee works for a person who is not an immediate employer of the employee, that person (“the principal employer”) is deemed to be the employer for the purposes of these Regulations and the immediate employer must provide the principal employer with such particulars of the employee’s earnings as may be necessary to enable the principal employer to comply with these Regulations.

(3) If the employee’s earnings are paid to the employee by the immediate employer then—

(a) the principal employer must notify the immediate employer of the amount of repayments which are to be deducted when the earnings are paid to the employee, and the immediate employer must deduct the amount notified accordingly; and

(b) the principal employer may make a corresponding deduction on making the payment to the immediate employer of the sum from which the earnings in question are to be paid.