2001 No. 313
SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2001

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 5 and 175(3) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 19921 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, and the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by paragraph 6(1) of Schedule 1 to that Act2 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 6th April 2001.

(2)

In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 19793.

Amendments to the principal Regulations

2.

In regulation 7 of the principal Regulations (lower and upper earnings limits and primary and secondary thresholds)4—

(a)

for “2000” there shall be substituted “2001”;

(b)

in paragraph (a) for the figure “£67” (lower earnings limit for primary Class 1 contributions) there shall be substituted the figure “£72”;

(c)

in paragraph (b) for the figure “£535” (upper earnings limit for primary Class 1 contributions) there shall be substituted the figure “£575”;

(d)

in paragraph (c) for the figure “£76” (primary threshold for primary Class 1 contributions) there shall be substituted the figure “£87”; and

(e)

in paragraph (d) for the figure “£84” (secondary threshold for secondary Class 1 contributions) there shall be substituted the figure “£87”.

3.

In regulation 8(3) of the principal Regulations (prescribed equivalents)5—

(a)

in sub-paragraph (a) for the words from “£329” to the end there shall be substituted the figure “£378”;

(b)

in sub-paragraph (b) for the words from “£3,952” to the end there shall be substituted the figure “£4,535”; and

(c)

in each of sub-paragraphs (c) to (e)—

(i)

for the word “amounts” there shall be substituted the word “amount”; and

(ii)

the word “relevant” shall be omitted.

4.

(1)

Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (application of the Income Tax (Employments) Regulations 19736 to earnings-related contributions, Class 1A contributions and Class 1B contributions) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions.

(2)

In Regulation 13(6)(b)7.

(a)

in head (ii) there shall be added at the end the words “and the current secondary threshold”;

(b)

head (iii) shall be omitted; and

(c)

in head (iiia) after the word “exceed” where it first appears there shall be inserted the words “the current primary threshold and”.

(3)

In Regulation 13(6)(c) for the words from “any reduction” to the end there shall be substituted—

“—

(i)

any reduction calculated in accordance with section 41(1) and (1A) or 42A(1) and (2) of the Pension Schemes Act 19938 on the amount of a primary Class 1 contribution in respect of earnings recorded under sub-paragraph (b)(ii) which is available for set-off against (and does not exceed) the amount recorded under sub-paragraph (b)(v), and

(ii)

any reduction calculated in accordance with section 41(1) and (1B) or 42A(1) and (2A) of that Act on the amount of a secondary Class 1 contribution in respect of earnings recorded under sub-paragraph (b)(ii), aggregated wtih any balance of the reduction in respect of earnings referred to in head (i) which exceeds the amount which may be set-off as therein mentioned.”

(4)

In Regulation 25(a)9—

(a)

head (ib) shall be omitted;

(b)

in head (ic) for the word “secondary” there shall be substituted the word “primary”;

(c)

heads (ii) and (v) shall be omitted; and

(d)

in the words following head (vi) “, (v)” shall be omitted.

(5)

In Regulation 30(1)(c)10 for head (ii) there shall be substituted the following heads—

“(ii)

Regulation 13(6)(c)(i), and

(iii)

Regulation 13(6)(c)(i) and (ii) aggregated together, and”.

Clive Betts
Greg Pope
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
Tim Flesher
Dave Hartnett
Two of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 1979 (S.I. 1979/591) (“the principal Regulations”).

Regulation 1 provides for citation, commencement and interpretation.

Regulation 2 amends regulation 7 of the principal Regulations to specify the lower earnings limit, upper earnings limit, primary threshold and secondary threshold for the tax year beginning on 6th April 2001.

Regulation 3 amends regulation 8(3) of the principal Regulations to provide for the equivalents of the primary threshold and secondary threshold where an employed earner’s earnings period is other than a week.

Regulation 4 makes consequential and incidental amendments to provisions in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations.

These Regulations do not impose any costs on business.