[F1 PART 8 N.I. National Insurance Credits

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. 8 added (6.4.2016) by The State Pension (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/100), regs. 1, 2(2)

CHAPTER 1 N.I. General

General provisions relating to the crediting of earnings or contributions N.I.

25.— (1) For the purposes of Part 1 of the Act—

(a) Chapter 2 makes provision for crediting earnings or contributions in respect of a pre-commencement qualifying year;

(b) Chapter 3 makes provision for crediting earnings or contributions in respect of a qualifying year or a post-commencement qualifying year.

(2) Where under this Part, a person would, but for this paragraph, be entitled to be credited with any earnings or contributions for a year, or in respect of any week in a year, that person is only to be credited to the extent necessary to make that year a qualifying year.

(3) Where under this Part a person is entitled to be credited with earnings or a contribution in respect of a week that falls partly in one year and partly in another, that week is to be treated as falling in the year in which it begins and not in the following year.]