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These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 5) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 25th October 1999.
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In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 1979 and “regulation” means a regulation of the principal Regulations.
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(1) Regulation 19 (payments to be disregarded) shall be amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (1) after sub-paragraph (zr) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—“
(zs) a payment to a person, as a participant in the scheme arranged under section 2(2) of the Employment and Training Act 1973 (functions of the Secretary of State) and known as “New Deal 50plus”, of an employment credit, or a training grant, under that scheme.”
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(1) Regulation 25 (earnings for the purposes of certificates of exception) shall be amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (2) for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—“
(b) in calculating those net earnings—
(i) where the applicant also has earnings from employed earner’s employment in the same year which are shown in the accounts of his business as a receipt of that business, or
(ii) where the applicant, as a participant in the scheme arranged under section 2(2) of the Employment and Training Act 1973 (functions of the Secretary of State) and known as “New Deal 50plus”, has received payments of an employment credit, or a training grant, under that scheme,
those earnings or payments shall be disregarded.”
Gordon Brown
Jim Dowd
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
2nd October 1999Alistair Darling
The Secretary of State for Social Security hereby concurs
2nd October 1999