Part IVAmendment of the Contributions Regulations

Employed persons' contributions paid late or unpaid11

1

In regulation 21(M1) of the Contributions Regulations (which relates to the treatment for the purpose of benefit of a contribution payable by an employer on behalf of an insured person which is paid late or is not paid, without consent, connivance or negligence on the part of the insured person) the following paragraph shall be added immediately after paragraph (1):

1A

The provisions of this regulation apply to a graduated contribution and to a payment in lieu of contributions as they apply to a contribution under the Act and as if, in the case of a payment in lieu of contributions, that payment were payable by the employer on behalf of the person in respect of whom it is payable:

Provided that where by virtue of this paragraph any graduated contribution falls to be treated as paid on the due date, the amount to be so treated shall not exceed such amount as is shown to the satisfaction of the Minister to have been payable.

2

In paragraph (2) of the said regulation 21 there shall be substituted for the words “ the last foregoing paragraph ” the words ““this regulation””.