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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Income Tax (Employments) (No. 25) Regulations 1993, shall come into force on 6th April 1993 and, except for regulations 3 and 4, shall have effect on and after that date.
(2) Regulations 3 and 4 shall have effect with respect to codes for the year 1994–95 and subsequent years of assessment.
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In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Income Tax (Employments) Regulations 1973 and, unless the context otherwise requires, “regulation” means a regulation of those Regulations.
3 
In regulation 6—
(a) in paragraph (2) for the words “paragraph (3)” there shall be substituted the words “paragraphs (3) and (5)”;
(b) after paragraph (4) there shall be added—“
(5) Where under regulation 12(2)(b) and (3) a code is deemed to have been determined by the Inspector as the appropriate code for the following year, he shall not be obliged to issue a code authorisation to the employer for that year, but a code authorisation shall be deemed to have been issued by the Inspector specifying that code as the appropriate code for that year, and the employer shall act in accordance with sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of paragraph (1) of this Regulation.”
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For paragraph (2) of regulation 12 there shall be substituted—“
(2) Where there is a change in the rates of any of the personal reliefs allowable under sections 257 to 257F of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988—
(a) if the change relates to the current year, the Inspector may give notice requiring the employer, with effect from the date specified in the notice, to amend specified codes as directed;
(b) if the change relates to the following year, the Inspector may give notice requiring the employer to carry forward to the following year and adjust as directed specified codes for the current year.
(3) A code amended by virtue of sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (2) in respect of the current year shall be the appropriate code for that year, and a code carried forward to the following year and adjusted by virtue of sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (2) shall be deemed to have been determined by the Inspector as the appropriate code for that year, and in either case all the provisions of these Regulations which relate to objections and appeals against the Inspector’s determination, or to deduction of tax by reference to the appropriate code or to the specification of the appropriate code in any code authorisation, return or certificate, shall, with the necessary modifications, have effect accordingly.”
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In regulation 18—
(a) in paragraph (3)(a) for the words “and the date on which the employment commenced” there shall be substituted the words “the date on which the employment commenced and the code in use by the employer in respect of the employee, if other than the code contained in the certificate,”;
(b) in paragraph (4)(a) for “3” there shall be substituted “7”.
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In regulation 20—
(a) in paragraph (1)(a) for the words “or (3)” there shall be substituted the words “, (3) or (5)”;
(b) in paragraph (6)(b)(i) for “three” there shall be substituted “seven”;
(c) in paragraph (6)(b)(ii) for “third” there shall be substituted “seventh”.
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In regulation 55(6) for “three” there shall be substituted “seven”.
L J H Beighton
C W Corlett
Two of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue
16th March 1993