{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracted-out-employment-fire-services-regulations-1977/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracted-out-employment-fire-services-regulations-1977/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1977/1118",
  "legislation_title": "The Contracted-out Employment (Fire Services) Regulations 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracted-out-employment-fire-services-regulations-1977",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "Part III of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 contains provisions for contracting-out from full contributions and benefits under that Act.\nThese Regulations relate to the operation and administration of Part III in the case of persons subject to the Firemen's Pension Scheme in force under the Fire Services Act 1947, other than persons entitled thereunder only to injury benefit or employed outside Great Britain (Regulation 3).\nRegulation 4 provides that certain powers, duties and functions normally falling on the employer shall, instead, fall on the Secretary of State. In particular, elections with a view to the issue, variation or surrender of contracting out certificates are to be made or revoked by him.\nRegulation 5 provides that, so far as concerns the termination of periods of contracted-out employment and the state scheme premium payable thereon, all employment to which the Regulations apply shall be treated as employment under a single employer.\nRegulation 6 provides that certain duties to furnish information and liabilities to pay state scheme premiums normally falling on the employer to whom a contracting-out certificate has been issued or on the trustees of the relevant superannuation scheme shall fall on the fire authority (or, in certain cases, government department) concerned, by whom social security contributions are payable.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/1118/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:56:26.227546+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}