{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-amendment-regulations-2006/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/127",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-amendment-regulations-2006",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/1004: “the principal Regulations”).\nRegulation 1 provides for the citation and commencement of the Regulations.\nRegulation 2 introduces the changes made to the principal Regulations.\nRegulation 3 amends regulation 10 of the principal Regulations to specify the levels of the lower and upper earnings limits for primary Class 1 contributions and the primary and secondary thresholds for primary and secondary Class 1 contributions for the tax year beginning 6th April 2006.\nRegulation 4 amends regulation 11(3) of the principal Regulations to provide for the equivalents of the primary and secondary thresholds where the earnings period is a month or a year.\nThese regulations do not impose any new 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/2006/127/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:39:15.602190+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."
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