# The Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2001, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations further amend the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 1979 (S.I. 1979/591) (“the principal Regulations”).
Regulation 1 provides for citation, commencement and interpretation.
Regulation 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.
Regulation 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.
Regulation 4 makes consequential and incidental amendments to provisions in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations.
These Regulations do not impose any costs on business.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/313/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-amendment-no-2-regulations-2001/note
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