{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-regulations-2001/regulation-151",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-regulations-2001/regulation-151.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/151",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "151",
  "heading": "Option to pay Class 2 contributions",
  "text": "Notwithstanding section 11(1) of the Act and regulation 150, a volunteer development worker who by virtue of that regulation is a self-employer earner—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) shall be entitled to pay a Class 2 contribution if he so wishes at the rate prescribed in regulation 152(b).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 151(a) omitted (6.4.2015) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/478), regs. 1(4), 19(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 151(b) substituted (6.4.2015) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/478), regs. 1(4), 19(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1004/regulation/151",
    "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."
}