The Social Security (Contributions, Categorisation of Earners and Intermediaries) (Amendment) Regulations 2004

Citation, commencement, effect and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Contributions, Categorisation of Earners and Intermediaries) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 and shall come into force on 6th April 2004.

(2) The substitution by regulation 12 of regulations 52 and 52A of the Contributions Regulations for the former regulation 52, and the consequential amendments made to those Regulations by regulations 11, 14, 26 and 32(11) of these Regulations have effect only in respect of contributions payable in respect of the year 2003-04 and subsequent years.

(3) In these Regulations—

“the Categorisation Regulations” means the Social Security (Categorisation of Earners) Regulations 1978(1) and “the Northern Ireland Categorisation Regulations” means the Social Security (Categorisation of Earners) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1978(2);

“the Contributions Regulations” means the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001(3); and

“the Intermediaries Regulations” means the Social Security Contributions (Intermediaries) Regulations 2000(4) and “the Northern Ireland Intermediaries Regulations” means the Social Security Contributions (Intermediaries) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2000(5).

(1)

S.I. 1978/1689.

(2)

S.R. 1978 No. 401.

(3)

S.I. 2001/1004: regulation 156(3) of the principal Regulations provides a rule of construction, in relation to their application to Northern Ireland, of references to enactments applying only in Great Britain.

(4)

S.I. 2000/727.

(5)

S.I. 2000/728.