{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-intermediaries-regulations-2000/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-intermediaries-regulations-2000/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/727",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Contributions (Intermediaries) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-intermediaries-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Client-led status disagreement process",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies if, before the final chain payment is made in the case of an engagement to which this Part applies, the worker or the deemed employer makes representations to the client that the conclusion contained in a status determination statement is incorrect.\n(2) The client must either—\n(a) give a statement to the worker or (as the case may be) the deemed employer that—\n(i) states that the client has considered the representations and has decided that the conclusion contained in the status determination statement is correct, and\n(ii) states the reasons for that decision, or\n(b) give a new status determination statement to the worker and the deemed employer that—\n(i) contains a different conclusion from the conclusion contained in the previous status determination,\n(ii) states the date from which the client considers that the conclusion contained in the new status determination statement became correct, and\n(iii) states that the previous status determination statement is withdrawn.\n(3) If the client fails to comply with the duty in paragraph (2) before the end of the period of 45 days beginning with the date the client receives the representations, regulation 14(3) and (4) has effect from the end of that period until the duty is complied with as if for any reference to the fee-payer there were substituted a reference to the client; but this is subject to regulations 22 and 24.\n(4) A new status determination statement given to the deemed employer under paragraph (2)(b) is to be treated for the purposes of regulation 14(8)(za) as having been given to the deemed employer by the person immediately above the deemed employer in the chain.\n(5) In this regulation—\n“the deemed employer” means the person who, assuming one of conditions A to C in regulation 14 were met, would be treated as making a payment of deemed direct earnings to the worker under regulation 14(3) on the making of a chain payment;\n“status determination statement” has the meaning given by regulation 14A.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Part 2 inserted (incorporating regs. 13-23) (6.4.2017) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/373), regs. 1, 2(13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Regs. 20 and 20A substituted for reg. 20 (6.4.2021) by The Social Security Contributions (Intermediaries) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1220), regs. 1(1)(3), 2(14) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 20(3) substituted (6.4.2021) by The Social Security Contributions (Intermediaries) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/308), regs. 1(3)(4), 3(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/727/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:53.657048+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."
}