The Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001

Abnormal pay practices U.K.

30.—(1) This regulation shall not apply for the purpose of any decision of an authorised officer of the Board in so far as that decision relates to contributions based on payments made more than one year before the beginning of the year in which that decision is given.

(2) With a view to securing that liability for the payment of earnings-related contributions is not avoided or reduced by a secondary contributor following any practice, in the payment of earnings, which is abnormal for the employment in respect of which the earnings are paid (“an abnormal pay practice”), an authorised officer of the Board may, if he thinks fit, determine any question relating to a person’s earnings-related contributions where any such practice has been or is being followed, as if the secondary contributor concerned had not followed any abnormal pay practice, but had followed a practice or practices normal for the employment in question.

(3) With the view mentioned in paragraph (2), an authorised officer of the Board, in any case in which he has reason to believe that any abnormal pay practice has been or is being followed, may determine any such question, if he is satisfied that it ought properly to be so determined, as if application had been duly made to him for its determination.