{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-regulations-2001/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-regulations-2001/regulation-20.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/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Joint employment of spouses or civil partners",
  "text": "For the purposes of earnings-related contributions, where spouses or civil partners are jointly employed in employed earner’s employment and earnings in respect of the employment are paid to them jointly, the amount of the earnings of each shall be calculated upon the same basis as that upon which those earnings are calculated for the purposes of income tax and, in the absence of such calculation, upon such basis as may be approved by the Board.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 20 substituted (5.12.2005) by The Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 6) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3130), regs. 1, 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 20 heading substituted (5.12.2005) by The Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 6) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3130), regs. 1, 3(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1004/regulation/20",
    "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."
}