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

Treatment for the purpose of any contributory benefit of contributions under the Act paid late through ignorance or error

6.—(1) In the case of a contribution paid by or in respect of a person after the due date, where—

(a) the contribution is paid after the time when it would, under regulation 4 or 5, have been treated as paid for the purpose of entitlement to contributory benefit, and

(b) it is shown to the satisfaction of the Inland Revenue that the failure to pay the contribution before that time is attributable to ignorance or error on the part of that person or the person making the payment and that that ignorance or error was not due to any failure on the part of such person to exercise due care and diligence,

the Inland Revenue may direct that, for the purposes of those regulations, the contribution shall be treated as paid on such earlier day as the Inland Revenue may consider appropriate in the circumstances, and those regulations shall have effect subject to any such direction.

(2) This regulation shall not apply to a Class 4 contribution.