Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Contributions and Credits) (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Regulations 1985 and shall come into operation on 6th October 1985.

(2) In these regulations—

“the Act” means the Social Security Act 1975;

“the principal regulations” means the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 1979(1);

and other expressions have the same meanings as in that Act or, as the case may be, those Regulations.

(1)

the relevant amending provisions are Schedule 1, paragraph 3(2) and (4) to the Social Security (Contributions) Act 1982 (c.2) and section 8(2) of the Social Security Act 1985 and the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1980/1975, 1982/206, 1983/10, 1948, 1984/77, 1985/397, 398.