{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-regulations-2001/regulation-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-regulations-2001/regulation-56.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/56",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Return of precluded Class 3 contributions",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulations 51 and 57 and to paragraph (2), where a contributor has paid a Class 3 contribution which by virtue of section 14(1) of the Act (restriction on the right to pay Class 3 contributions) or regulation 49 he was not entitled to pay, the Board shall, on application of the contributor, return that contribution to the contributor.\n(2) A contributor wishing to apply for the return of a contribution falling within paragraph (1) shall make an application to the Board either—\n(a) in writing; or\n(b) in such form, and by such means of electronic communications, as are approved.",
  "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/56",
    "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."
}