1993 No. 583
The Social Security (Contributions) Amendment (No. 4) Regulations 1993
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of powers conferred by sections 3(2) and (3), 122(1) and 175(1) to (3) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 19921 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals to make these Regulations should not be referred to it2, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation1
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Contributions) Amendment (No. 4) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 6th April 1993.
2
In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 19793.
Amendment of regulation 19 of the principal Regulations2
In paragraph (1) of regulation 19 of the principal Regulations (payments to be disregarded)4, after sub-paragraph (n) there shall be added the following sub-paragraphs—
o
a payment of, or contribution towards, expenses incurred by a person—
i
in staying in board and lodging near his place of work, or
ii
in travelling from his home to his place of work or from his place of work to his home other than by his usual method of transport,
where those expenses are incurred as the result of a disruption to public transport caused by a strike or other form of industrial action;
p
a payment of, or contribution towards, expenses incurred by a person in travelling from his place of work to his home by taxi, hired car or other form of hired transport where—
i
he has worked to 9p.m. or later at the request of his employer, and
ii
working to that time or later is neither a regular nor a frequent occurrence in that employment,
and for the purposes of this sub-paragraph, “a regular occurrence” means one that forms part of the normal pattern of his employment at the time the expense was incurred and “a frequent occurrence” means one that, at the time and in the year in which the expense is incurred, has already occurred more than 60 times;
q
a payment of, or contribution towards, expenses which, under subsection (3), (4) or (6) of section 193, or subsection (1) of section 194 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 19884 (travel expenses and foreign travel expenses where the duties of an office or employment are performed wholly or partly outside the United Kingdom), are deductible from the emoluments of the employment chargeable to tax under Schedule E.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
(This note is not part of the Regulations)