Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 1894

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Security (Categorisation of Earners) Amendment Regulations 1990

Made

18th September 1990

Laid before Parliament

25th September 1990

Coming into force

16th October 1990

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2(2) and 4(5) of, and Schedule 20 to, the Social Security Act 1975(1) 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 it(2), hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Categorisation of Earners) Amendment Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 16th October 1990.

(2) In these Regulations "the principal Regulations" means the Social Security (Categorisation of Earners) Regulations 1978(3), and unless the context otherwise requires references to Schedules and to paragraphs of Schedules are references to Schedules to the principal Regulations and to paragraphs of those Schedules.

Amendment of Schedule 1

2. In Schedule 1 (treatment of earners in one category of earners as falling within another category and disregard of employments) for paragraph 1 in Column (A) of Part I there shall be substituted the following paragraph-

"1. Employment-

(a)as an office cleaner or as an operative in any similar capacity in any premises other than those used as a private dwelling-house; or

(b)as a cleaner of any telephone apparatus and associated fixtures, other than of apparatus and fixtures in premises used as a private dwelling-house.".

Amendment of Schedule 3

3.-(1) In Schedule 3 (employments in respect of which persons are treated as secondary Class 1 contributors) for paragraph 1 in Column (A) there shall be substituted the following paragraph-

"1. Employment-

(a)as an office cleaner or as an operative in any similar capacity in any premises other than those used as a private dwelling-house; or

(b)as a cleaner of any telephone apparatus and associated fixtures, other than of apparatus and fixtures in premises used as a private dwelling-house.".

(2) In paragraph 2(c) in Column (B) of Schedule 3, for the words "regulation 113(1)(b) of the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 1975" there shall be substituted the words "regulation 119(1)(b) of the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 1979(4)".

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

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of Social Security

18th September 1990

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Social Security (Categorisation of Earners) Regulations 1978 ("the principal Regulations").

Regulation 2 amends Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations, and extends employments in respect of which an earner is to be treated as falling within the category of employed earner to cleaners of non-domestic telephone apparatus and associated fixtures. Regulation 3 makes a consequential amendment to Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations, so as to prescribe secondary Class 1 contributors for such employments, and makes a minor amendment to update a reference.

(1)

1975 c. 14. Schedule 20 is cited because of the meanings ascribed to the words "Prescribe" and "Regulations".

(2)

See the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50), section 61(1)(b) and (10). The Social Security Act 1989 (c. 24), Schedule 8, paragraph 12(4) added a definition of "regulations" to section 61(10) of the Social Security Act 1986.

(3)

S.I. 1978/1689. The amending instruments are S.I. 1980/1713 and 1984/350.

(4)

S.I. 1979/591.