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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-categorisation-of-earners-regulations-1978/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1978/1689",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Categorisation of Earners) Regulations 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-categorisation-of-earners-regulations-1978",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "These Regulations are made for the purpose only of consolidating the Regulations hereby revoked.\nThey provide for persons in employments of prescribed descriptions to be treated for the purposes of the Social Security Act 1975 as falling within another category of earners. The Regulations also provide for other employments of prescribed descriptions to be disregarded (regulation 2 and Schedule 1).\nProvision is also made for the circumstances in which employment as a self-employed earner is treated as continuing (regulation 3 and Schedule 2).\nProvision is also made for the special categorisation of a person following a decision of the High Court or a revised decision of the Secretary of State so as to enable the original determination concerning that person's category to stand where this would be in the interests of the person concerned (regulation 4).\nThe Regulations provide for prescribed persons to be treated for the purposes of the Social Security Act 1975 as the secondary Class 1 contributor in respect of persons in specified employments (regulation 5 and Schedule 3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1978/1689/note",
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  "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."
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