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42.—(1) The Commissioners are to refund a contributions equivalent premium if—
(a)it was paid in error;
(b)they are satisfied that a transfer of the earner’s accrued rights will be made in accordance with regulations made under section 16 (transfer of accrued rights) or section 33A of the 1993 (NI) Act; or
(c)the scheme is one under which a member may qualify for benefits by virtue of service either in employed earner’s employment or as a self-employed earner (within the meaning of section 2 of the Contributions and Benefits (NI) Act) or both and the Commissioners are satisfied that the earner in respect of whom the premium was paid has completed a period of membership of the scheme as a self-employed earner which, when aggregated with service in employed earner’s employment, amounts to not less than two years.
(2) Where a contributions equivalent premium is refunded under paragraph (1), the earner’s accrued rights under the scheme, which were extinguished by payment of the premium, are to be restored.
(3) A refund under this regulation is only to be made if an application is made in writing in such form as the Commissioners may reasonably require for that purpose, or by means of an electronic communication in such form as the Commissioners may approve.
(4) In paragraph (1)(a), “error” means an error which—
(a)was made at the time of payment; and
(b)relates to some present or past matter.
(5) Where—
(a)an earner has been employed concurrently in two or more contracted-out employments, on the termination of one or more of which a contributions equivalent premium has been paid; and
(b)the aggregate amount of any such payments has the effect that the National Insurance Fund has gained, by reference to any employment in respect of which such a payment has been made, a greater amount than it would have gained from Class 1 contributions under the Contributions and Benefits (NI) Act if those employments had not been contracted-out,
there is to be paid out of the National Insurance Fund to the earner (or to the earner’s estate) an amount which bears the same proportion to the amount of the excess as the reduction under section 37(1A) of the 1993 (NI) Act (as it had effect immediately before the second abolition date) (reduced rates of Class 1 contributions) in the normal percentage of primary Class 1 contributions bears to the total reduction under subsections (1A) and (1B) in the total normal percentage of Class 1 contributions.
(6) The Commissioners are also to refund a contributions equivalent premium if they are satisfied that—
(a)where it was paid in the circumstances mentioned in section 51(2A)(a), (b), (d) or (e) of the 1993 (NI) Act, the person in respect of whom it was paid has died, without leaving a widow, widower or surviving civil partner, on or before the later of the days mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) respectively of regulation 40(1); or
(b)where it was paid in the circumstances mentioned in section 51(2A)(c) of the 1993 (NI) Act, there are no accrued rights to guaranteed minimum pensions or section 5(2B) rights under the scheme in question in respect of the widow, widower or surviving civil partner in question.
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