
1985 No. 1398
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Social Security (Contributions and Credits) (Transitional
and Consequential Provisions) Regulations 1985
Made 6th September 1985
Laid before Parliament 12th September 1985
Coming into Operation 6th October 1985
The Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of
powers conferred upon him by 
sections 4(6A) and (6D), 
13(4) and 168(1)
of, and Schedule 20 to, the 
Social Security Act 1985 and section
32(6) of the Social Security Act 1985
, and of all other powers enabling him in that
behalf, by this instrument, which contains only provisions consequential on 
section 7 of the said Act of 1985 and regulations
made under section 4(6A)
and (6D) of the 
Social Security Act 1975, makes the following
regulations:—
Citation, commencement and interpretation
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(1) These regulations may be cited as the 
Social Security (Contributions and Credits) (Transitional and Consequential
Provisions) Regulations 1985 and shall come
into operation on 6th October 1985.
(2) In these regulations—
 “the Act”
means the Social Security Act 1975;
 “the principal regulations”
 means the 
Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 1979;and other expressions have the same meanings as in that Act or,
as the case may be, those Regulations.
Transitional provisions for the assessment of Class 1 contributions
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Amount of Class 3 contributions payable in respect of the year 1985/86
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(1) Subject to 
section 8(2C) of the Act the
amount of a Class 3 contribution payable in respect of the year commencing
6th April 1985 shall be—
(a) in respect of the first 26 contribution
weeks of that year £4.65;
(b) in respect of the last 26 contribution
weeks of that year £3.40.
(2) Where contributions paid by or credited
to a person in respect of the year commencing 6th April 1985 are insufficient
to enable him to satisfy the contribution conditions of entitlement to benefit
by acquiring the requisite earnings factor for that year, then, subject to 
regulations 27 and 28
of the principal regulations, he may not pay more than 26 Class 3 contributions
at the amount of £3.40 and, where he has paid or there are payable Class
2 contributions at the rate of £3.50 (being the rate coming into force
on 6th October 1985) he may only pay a number of such Class 3 contributions
which, when added to the number of such Class 2 contributions, does not exceed
26.
(3) For the purposes of Class 3 contributions
in respect of the year commencing 6th April 1985, the contribution week commencing
31st March 1985 shall be treated as falling wholly in the year commencing
6th April 1984.
Modification of the Act
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Amendment of the principal regulations
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Minor and consequential amendment of the principal regulations
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Amendment of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975
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In regulation
3(2)(b) of the Social Security (Credits)
Regulations 1975 for the words “in 
section 4(6)(a)” there shall
be substituted the words “in relation to the highest current
primary earnings bracket in section 4(6B)”
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Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services.

Trumpington
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Department of Health and Social Security
