Statutory Instruments

1984 No. 350

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Security (Categorisation of Earners) Amendment Regulations 1984

Made

12th March 1984

Laid before Parliament

15th March 1984

Coming into Operation

6th April 1984

The Secretary of State for Social Services in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 2(2), 4(5) and 168(1) of, and Schedule 20 to, the Social Security Act 1975 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement with the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals to make these regulations should not be referred to it(1), hereby makes the following regulations:—

Citation, interpretation and commencement

1. These regulations, which may be cited as the Social Security (Categorisation of Earners) Amendment Regulations 1984, amend the Social Security (Categorisation of Earners) Regulations 1978(2) (hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”) and shall come into operation on 6th April 1984.

Amendment of paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the principal regulations

2. In Schedule 1 to the principal regulations—

(a)paragraph 4(a) in column (A) shall be deleted;

(b)for paragraph 4 in column (B) there shall be substituted—

“Any person in employment described in paragraph 4 in column (A) where

4.—(a) the person employed has agreed, prior to giving the instruction, to give it on not more than three days in three consecutive months; or

(b)the instruction is given as public lectures.”.

Amendment of paragraph 12(b) in column (B) of Schedule 1 to the principal regulations

3. In paragraph 12(b) in column (B) of Schedule 1 to the principal regulations for the words “pension scheme” there shall be substituted the words “scheme providing a pension, lump sum, gratuity or like benefit on cessation of the employment which is”.

Deletion of paragraph 6(a) in column (A) of Schedule 3 to the principal regulations

4. Paragraph 6(a) in column (A) of Schedule 3 to the principal regulations shall be deleted.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services.

Rhodes Boyson

Minister of State

Department of Health and Social Security

12th March 1984

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations further amend Schedules 1 and 3 to the Social Security (Categorisation of Earners) Regulations 1978 by alterations to paragraphs 4 and 12 of Schedule 1, and to paragraph 6 of Schedule 3.

Paragraph 4 makes provision for persons employed to give instruction in an educational establishment to be treated as employed earners, if the conditions in paragraph 4 in Column (A) of Schedule 1 are satisfied. The amendment in regulation 2 excepts from such treatment persons who have agreed, prior to giving the instruction, to give it on not more than three days in three consecutive months, or persons giving instruction as public lectures. Regulation 4 makes an amendment consequent on the foregoing.

Paragraph 12 disregards for contribution purposes employment as a member of an international headquarters or defence organisation designated under section 1 of the International Headquarters and Defence Organisations Act 1964 (c. 5). The amendment contained in regulation 3 provides that in the case of a civilian, such employment is not disregarded where the civilian is not a member of a scheme established by the headquarters or organisation concerned, which provides a pension or gratuity on cessation of the employment.

(1)

See section 10(2)(b) of the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30).

(2)

The relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1980/1713.