2000 No. 346
SOCIAL SECURITY, NORTHERN IRELAND

The Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2000

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Treasury, with the concurrence of the Department for Social Development1, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 3(2) and (3), 121(1)2 and 171(3) and (10)3 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 19924 and now vested in them5, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 6th March 2000.

Interpretation

2.

In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 19796 and “regulation” means a regulation of the principal Regulations.

Amendment of regulations 19 and 25 of the principal Regulations

3.

(1)

Regulation 19 (payments to be disregarded) shall be amended as follows.

(2)

In paragraph (1) after sub-paragraph (zn)7 there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—

“(zo)

a payment made to a person, as a participant in the scheme arranged under section 1 of the Employment and Training Act (Northern Ireland) 19508, and known as “New Deal 50plus”, of an employment credit, or a training grant, under that scheme.”

4.

(1)

Regulation 25 (earnings for the purposes of certificates of exception) shall be amended as follows.

(2)

In paragraph (2)9 for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(b)

in calculating those net earnings—

(i)

where the applicant also has earnings from employed earner’s employment in the same year which are shown in the accounts of his business as a receipt of that business, or

(ii)

where the applicant, as a participant in the scheme arranged under section 1 of the Employment and Training Act (Northern Ireland) 1950 and known as “New Deal 50plus”, has received payments of an employment credit, or a training grant, under that scheme,

those earnings or payments shall be disregarded.”

Jim Dowd
Greg Pope
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

The Department for Social Development hereby concurs.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 11th February 2000.

John O'Neill
Senior Officer of the
Department for Social Development
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979 (S.R. 1979 No. 186) (“the principal Regulations”).

Regulation 1 provides for citation and commencement, and regulation 2 for interpretation.

Regulation 3 amends regulation 19(1) of the principal Regulations (payments to be disregarded) by adding a new sub-paragraph (zo). The new sub-paragraph relates to payments under the New Deal 50plus scheme which are to be disregarded for the purposes of earnings-related contributions.

Regulation 4 amends regulation 25(2) of the principal Regulations (earnings for the purposes of certificates of exception) by substituting sub-paragraph (b). The effect of the substitution is that payments under the New Deal 50plus scheme are also to be disregarded in computing a self-employed earner’s net earnings for the purposes of the exception from liability to pay Class 2 contributions on account of small earnings (see section 11(4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7)).