{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-regulations-2001/regulation-153",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-regulations-2001/regulation-153.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/153",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "153",
  "heading": "Late paid contributions",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to any Class 2 contribution a volunteer development worker is entitled to pay by virtue of regulation 151, which is paid in respect of a week falling within a tax year (“the contribution year”) earlier than the tax year in which it is paid.\n(2) Section 12 of the Act (late paid Class 2 contributions) shall not apply.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (4), the amount of a contribution to which this regulation applies shall be the amount which the volunteer development worker would have had to pay if he had paid the contribution in the contribution year.\n(4) In any case where—\n(a) the volunteer development worker pays a contribution to which this regulation applies after the end of the tax year immediately following the contribution year; and\n(b) the weekly rate of contributions applicable under regulation 152(b), for the week in respect of which the contribution is paid, differs from the weekly rate so applicable at the time of payment,\nthe amount of the contributions shall be computed by reference to the highest weekly rate of contrinbutions applicable in the period from the week in respect of which the contribution is paid to the day on which it is paid.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1004/regulation/153",
    "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."
}