{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-regulations-2001/regulation-125",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-regulations-2001/regulation-125.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1004",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/125",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "125",
  "heading": "Modification in relation to share fishermen of Part I of the Act and so much of Part VI of the Act as relates to contributions",
  "text": "Part I of the Act and so much of Part VI of the Act as relates to contributions shall apply to share fishermen with the modification that—\n(a) employment as a share fisherman shall be employment as a self-employed earner notwithstanding that it is not employment in the United Kingdom;\n(b) as respects a share fisherman being treated as having actually paid Class 2 contributions under section 11(5B) of the Act (class 2 contributions treated as paid) in respect of his employment as a share fisherman, regulation 117(1)(a) and (b) and (2) shall apply as if the share fisherman were a mariner and as if the reference in regulation 117(1) to an employed earner were a reference to a self-employed earner and as if the words “or on behalf, or in respect, of” were omitted;\n(c) for the purposes of entitlement to a contribution-based job seeker’s allowance, the weekly rate of any Class 2 contribution payable , or which is treated as having actually been paid under section 11(5B) of the Act (Class 2 contributions treated as paid), by a share fisherman for any contribution week while he is ordinarily employed as a share fisherman shall, notwithstanding the provisions of section 11(6) of the Act (Class 2 contributions), be £4.30;\n(d) regulations 21, 100 and 108 shall apply to contributions payable at the weekly rate specified in paragraph (c) of this regulation as if references in those regulations to Class 2 contributions included, as may be appropriate, references to Class 2 contributions at that rate;\n(e) regulation 43 shall apply to a share fisherman as if there were included at the end of paragraph (1)(a) of that regulation the words “or is entitled to a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance or, but for a failure to satisfy the contribution conditions for that benefit, would be so entitled”;\n(f) insofar as Class 4 contributions in respect of the profits or gains of a share fisherman in respect of his employment as such are not collected by the Board under section 16 of the Act (assessment and collection, etc. of Class 4 contributions) regulations 103 to 110 shall apply as if the share fisherman were a person to whom section 18(1)(a) and (b) of the Act applied (Class 4 contributions for persons treated under section 2(2)(b) of the Act as self-employed earners); and\n(g) for the purposes of section 12 of the Act and for the purposes of that section as modified by regulations 63 to 65, where an earner was a share fisherman when the earner became entitled to pay Class 2 contributions, any reference in section 12 to an ordinary contribution, and any reference in those regulations to the weekly applicable rate of a contribution, shall be a reference to the rate of Class 2 contributions prescribed for a share fisherman.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 125(b) substituted (6.4.2024) by The Social Security (Class 2 National Insurance Contributions) (Consequential Amendments and Savings) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/377), regs. 1(1), 6(6)(a) (with reg. 1(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 125(c) inserted (14.12.2022 with effect from 6.4.2022) by The Social Security (Class 2 National Insurance Contributions Increase of Threshold) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1329), regs. 1, 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 125(c) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 1 para. 35 of the amending Act) by National Insurance Contributions Act 2015 (c. 5), Sch. 1 para. 33(1) (with Sch. 1 para. 33(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 125(c) substituted (6.4.2024) by The Social Security (Class 2 National Insurance Contributions) (Consequential Amendments and Savings) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/377), regs. 1(1), 6(6)(b) (with reg. 1(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sum in reg. 125(c) substituted (6.4.2026) by The Social Security (Contributions) (Re-rating) Consequential Amendment Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/283), regs. 1(2), 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Section 16 was amended by paragraph 16 of Schedule 3, and Schedule 10, to the Transfer Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Section 18 was amended by paragraph 7 of Schedule 1 to the Transfer Act, paragraph 18 of Schedule 3 to that Act and article 4 of S.I. 2000/755."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Section 12 was amended by paragraph 13 of Schedule 3 and paragraph 3 of Schedule 9 to the Transfer Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in reg. 125(g) substituted (6.4.2015) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/478), regs. 1(4), 16"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1004/regulation/125",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:54:35.441483+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."
}