1980 No. 1714
SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Security (Categorisation of Earners) Amendment Regulations 1980

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into Operation

The Secretary of State for Social Services in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 2(2)(a) of the Social Security Act 1975 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after considering the report of the National Insurance Advisory Committee on the draft submitted to them in accordance with section 139 of that Act, hereby makes the following regulations:—

Citation, commencement and interpretation1.

(1)

These regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Categorisation of Earners) Amendment Regulations 1980 and shall come into operation on 1st December 1980.

(2)

In these regulations “the principal regulations” means the Social Security (Categorisation of Earners) Regulations 1978.

Insertion of new paragraphs 11 and 12 in Part III of Schedule 1 to the principal regulations2.

After paragraph 10 in Part III of Schedule 1 to the principal regulations there shall be inserted the following paragraphs—

(a)

in column (A)—

“11.

Employment:

(a)

as a member of the naval, military or air forces of a country to which a provision of the Visiting Forces Act 1952 applies by virtue of section 1 thereof;

(b)

as a civilian by any such force.

12.

Employment as a member of any international headquarters or defence organisation designated under section 1 of the International Headquarters and Defence Organisations Act 1964 ”;

(b)

in column (B)—

“11.

Any employment described in paragraph 11(b) in column (A) of a person who is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom.

12.

Any employment described in paragraph 12 in column (A) of a person who is—

(a)

a serving member of the regular naval, military or air forces of the Crown raised in the United Kingdom, and any officer of the Brigade of Gurkhas holding Her Majesty's commission who is not a Queen's Gurkha officer; or”

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These regulations amend the Social Security (Employed Earners' Employments for Industrial Injuries Purposes) Regulations 1975. They add provisions which provide that for industrial injuries purposes employment as a military or civilian member of a visiting force and employment as a member of a Headquarters or defence organisation designated under section 1 of the International Headquarters and Defence Organisations Act 1964, except, in either case, where a civilian is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, shall not be treated as employed earner's employment.