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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-amendment-no-2-regulations-2001/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/313",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-amendment-no-2-regulations-2001",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 1979 (S.I. 1979/591) (“the principal Regulations”).\nRegulation 1 provides for citation, commencement and interpretation.\nRegulation 2 amends regulation 7 of the principal Regulations to specify the lower earnings limit, upper earnings limit, primary threshold and secondary threshold for the tax year beginning on 6th April 2001.\nRegulation 3 amends regulation 8(3) of the principal Regulations to provide for the equivalents of the primary threshold and secondary threshold where an employed earner’s earnings period is other than a week.\nRegulation 4 makes consequential and incidental amendments to provisions in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations.\nThese Regulations do not impose any costs on business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/313/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."
}