
1 
This Order may be cited as the Social Security (Minimum Contributions to Appropriate Personal Pension Schemes) Order 1996, and shall come into force on 6th April 1997.
2 
For the purposes of section 45 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 (amount of minimum contributions) the appropriate age-related percentages in respect of earners in the tax years 1997—98 and 1998–99 are those specified in the Table in the Schedule to this Order by reference to their ages on the last day of the preceding tax year.
 Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
 Oliver Heald
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Social Security

SCHEDULE
Article 2

 TABLE Appropriate age related percentages of earnings exceeding the lower earnings limit but not the upper earnings limit.Age on last day of preceding tax year Appropriate age-related percentages for the tax year
 1997–98 1998–99 ...  
15 3.4 3.4   
16 3.4 3.4   
17 3.5 3.5   
18 3.5 3.5   
19 3.6 3.6   
20 3.6 3.6   
21 3.7 3.7   
22 3.7 3.7   
23 3.8 3.8   
24 3.8 3.8   
25 3.9 3.9   
26 3.9 3.9   
27 4.0 4.0   
28 4.0 4.0   
29 4.1 4.1   
30 4.2 4.2   
31 4.2 4.2   
32 4.3 4.3   
33 4.3 4.3   
34 4.4 4.4   
35 4.5 4.4   
36 4.7 4.6   
37 4.9 4.8   
38 5.0 4.9   
39 5.2 5.1   
40 5.4 5.3   
41 5.6 5.5   
42 6.0 5.7   
43 6.7 6.1   
44 7.4 6.8   
45 8.2 7.5   
46 9.0 8.3   
47 9.0 9.0   
48 9.0 9.0   
49 9.0 9.0   
50 9.0 9.0   
51 9.0 9.0   
52 9.0 9.0   
53 9.0 9.0   
54 9.0 9.0   
55 9.0 9.0   
56 9.0 9.0   
57 9.0 9.0   
58 9.0 9.0   
59 9.0 9.0   
60 9.0 9.0   
61 9.0 9.0   
62 9.0 9.0   
63 9.0 9.0   