Social Security Pensions Act 1975

General regulations E+W+S

1 In relation to employments which are or at any time have been contracted-out employments, and to the operation of schemes by reference to which such employments are or have been contracted-out, provision may be made by regulations—

(a) for treating an earner’s employment, where it ends before a person succeeds to the business of the earner’s employer, as having been employment under the employer’s successor;

(b) for disregarding changes in an earner’s employment due to the death of an employer or other cause, or any cesser of contracted-out employment so due, or for treating employment under one employer as a continuation of that under another and treating any contracting-out certificate issued to, or election made by, the former employer as issued to or made by the latter;

(c) for disregarding temporary interruptions in an earner’s employment or contracted-out employment, and for treating the employment in either case as continuing during the interruption; and

(d) generally as to the circumstances in which an earner’s employment is or is not to be treated as having begun, or as having come to an end;

and references in this paragraph to an earner’s employment beginning or ending shall include references to his employment becoming or ceasing to be contracted-out employment.

2 Regulations may enable the Occupational Pensions Board to determine, in prescribed circumstances, that an earner, or any group of earners whose employment falls within a particular category or description of contracted-out employments, has been in such employment from a date earlier than would otherwise be the case, not being, in the case of an earner within the scope of the determination, a date earlier than that on which his relevant employment began or a contracting-out certificate was issued in respect of it, whichever is the later.

3 Provision may be made by regulations for requiring an employer to give notice to the Secretary of State when an earner’s employment becomes or ceases to be contracted-out employment and when an earner’s employment in contracted-out employment begins or ends.