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[F1(1)Where in any tax week earnings are paid to or for the benefit of an earner over the age of 16 in respect of any one employment of his which is employed earner’s employment—
(a)a primary Class 1 contribution shall be payable in accordance with this section and section 8 below if the amount paid exceeds the current lower earnings limit (or the prescribed equivalent in the case of earners paid otherwise than weekly); and
(b)a secondary Class 1 contribution shall be payable in accordance with this section and section 9 below if the amount paid exceeds the current earnings threshold (or the prescribed equivalent in the case of earners paid otherwise than weekly).]
(2)Except as may be prescribed, no primary Class 1 contribution shall be payable in respect of earnings paid to or for the benefit of an employed earner after he attains pensionable age, but without prejudice to any liability to pay secondary Class 1 contributions in respect of any such earnings.
[F2(2A)No primary or secondary Class 1 contribution shall be payable in respect of earnings if a Class 1B contribution is payable in respect of them.]
(3)The primary and secondary Class 1 contributions referred to in subsection (1) above are payable as follows—
(a)the primary contribution shall be the liability of the earner; and
(b)the secondary contribution shall be the liability of the secondary contributor;
but nothing in this subsection shall prejudice the provisions of paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to this Act relating to the manner in which the earner’s liability falls to be discharged.
(4)Except as provided by this Act, the primary and secondary Class 1 contributions in respect of earnings paid to or for the benefit of an earner in respect of any one employment of his shall be payable without regard to any other such payment of earnings in respect of any other employment of his.
(5)Regulations may provide for reducing primary or secondary Class 1 contributions which are payable in respect of persons to whom [F3Part XII of the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (redundancy payments) does not apply by virtue of Article 242(2) or 250 of that Order].
(6)The power conferred by subsection (1) above to prescribe an equivalent of the lower earnings limit includes power to prescribe an amount which exceeds, by not more than £1.00, the amount which is the arithmetical equivalent of that limit.
[F4(7)Regulations under any provision of this section shall be made by the Treasury.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 6(1) substituted (24.2.1999 for specified purposes and 6.4.1999 otherwise) by S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10), art. 48(2); S.R. 1999/72, art. 2(a)
F2S. 6(2A) inserted (6.4.1999) by S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10), art. 78(1), Sch. 6 para. 39; S.R. 1998/312, art. 2(d), Sch. Pt. III
F3Words in s. 6(5) substituted (24.9.1996) by S.I. 1996/1919 (N.I. 16), art. 255, Sch. 1 (with Sch. 2)
F4S. 6(7) added (1.4.1999) by S.I. 1999/671, art. 4, Sch. 3 para. 7 (with savings and transitional provisions in Sch. 7); S.R. 1999/149, art. 2(c), Sch. 2 (subject to arts. 3-6)
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