{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-reduced-rates-of-class-1-contributions-rebates-and-minimum-contributions-order-2011/article-1",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2011/9780111506257",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Reduced Rates of Class 1 Contributions, Rebates and Minimum Contributions) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-reduced-rates-of-class-1-contributions-rebates-and-minimum-contributions-order-2011",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, interpretation and extent",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Social Security (Reduced Rates of Class 1 Contributions, Rebates and Minimum Contributions) Order 2011 and shall come into force on 6th April 2012.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the 1993 Act” means the Pension Schemes Act 1993;\n“the low earnings threshold”, in relation to a tax year, means the low earnings threshold for that tax year as specified in—\n(a) section 44A of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (deemed earnings factors); or\n(b) in relation to Northern Ireland, section 44A of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (deemed earnings factors);\n“the Northern Ireland Act” means the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993.\n(3) These provisions of this Order extend to England and Wales and Scotland—\n(a) articles 2 to 4;\n(b) this article, and the Schedules, so far as they relate to articles 2 to 4.\n(4) These provisions of this Order extend to Northern Ireland—\n(a) articles 5 to 7;\n(b) this article, and the Schedules, so far as they relate to articles 5 to 7.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c.4. Section 44A was inserted by section 30(3) of the 2000 Act and amended by paragraph 11 of Schedule 1 to the 2002 Act, paragraph 2 of the Schedule to S.I. 2002/1457, paragraph 34 of Schedule 1 to the 2007 Act, and paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the 2008 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1992 c.7. Section 44A was inserted by section 29(3) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c.4 (N.I.))."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2011/9780111506257/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:54:09.833956+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."
}