The Social Security (Categorisation of Earners) Amendment Regulations 1999

Made: 6th January 1999

Laid before Parliament: 8th January 1999

Coming into force: 31st January 1999

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of powers conferred by sections 2(2)(b), 7(2), 122(1) and 175(1) and (4) 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 and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Categorisation of Earners) Amendment Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 31st January 1999.

Revocation

2

Regulation 5 of the Social Security (Categorisation of Earners) Amendment Regulations 1998 (expiry of Regulations)³, is hereby revoked.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.

Angela Eagle — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,Department of Social Security — 16th January 1999

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Social Security (Categorisation of Earners) Amendment Regulations 1998 (“the Amendment Regulations”) which further amended the Social Security (Categorisation of Earners) Regulations 1978 by providing that certain forms of employment as an entertainer are to be treated as employment as an employed earner, and by specifying the person who is to be treated as the secondary Class 1 contributor in relation to earnings from any such employment as an entertainer.

Regulation 2 of these Regulations revokes regulation 5 of the Amendment Regulations which provides that those Regulations are to cease to have effect on 1st February 1999.

These Regulations impose no costs on business.

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