The Social Security (Crediting and Treatment of Contributions, and National Insurance Numbers) Regulations 2001

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Crediting and Treatment of Contributions, and National Insurance Numbers) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 6th April 2001.

(2) In these Regulations, including this regulation—

“the Act” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;

“the Contributions Regulations” means the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 1979(1);

“contribution week” means a period of seven days beginning with midnight between Saturday and Sunday;

“contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance” and “income-based jobseeker’s allowance” have the same meaning as in the Jobseekers Act 1995(2);

“contributory benefit” includes a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance but not an income-based jobseeker’s allowance;

“due date” means, in relation to any contribution which a person is—

(a)

liable to pay, the date by which payment falls to be made in accordance with Part IV of the Contributions Regulations;

(b)

entitled, but not liable, to pay, the date 42 days after the end of the year in respect of which it is paid;

“earnings factor” has the meaning assigned to it in section 21(5)(c) of the Act;

“relevant benefit year” has the meaning assigned to it in—

(a)

section 2(4)(b) of the Jobseekers Act 1995, in relation to a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance;

(b)

paragraph 2(6)(b) of Schedule 3 to the Act(3) (contribution conditions for entitlement to short-term incapacity benefit), in relation to short-term incapacity benefit;

“relevant time”, in relation to short-term incapacity benefit, has the meaning assigned to it in paragraph 2(6)(a) of Schedule 3 to the Act;

“year” means tax year.

(1)

S.I. 1979/591. The relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1984/77, 1987/413 and 2111, 1989/572, 1992/97 and 669, 1993/260, 1995/829, 1996/2367, 1999/567, 2000/2207, 2343 and 2744 and 2001/45.

(2)

1995 c. 18.

(3)

Paragraph 2(6)(b) was amended by paragraph 38(2) of Schedule 1 to the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Act 1994 (c. 18).