{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-regulations-2001/schedule-4/paragraph-11ZA",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-regulations-2001/schedule-4/paragraph-11ZA.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1004",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-regulations-2001",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/11ZA",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "11ZA",
  "heading": "Payments to and recoveries from HMRC for each tax period by Real Time Information employers: returns under paragraph 21E(6) or 21EA(3)",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies if, during any tax period, an employer makes a return under paragraph 21E(6) (returns under paragraph 21A and 21D: amendments) other than by virtue of paragraph 21E(4), or paragraph 21EA(3) (failure to make a return under paragraph 21A or 21D of Schedule 4).\n(2) The amount specified in paragraph 10(2) or, as the case may be, 11(2) for the final tax period in the year covered by the return is to be adjusted to take account of the information in the return.\n(3) If the value of the adjustment required by paragraph (2) is a negative amount, the employer may recover that amount—\n(a) by setting it off against the amount the employer is liable to pay under paragraph 10(2) or, as the case may be, 11(2) for the tax period the return is made in; or\n(b) from the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.\n(3A) Where sub-paragraph (3) applies the negative amount is treated as having been paid to HMRC—\n(a) 17 days after the end of the final tax period in the year covered by the return where payment is made using an approved method of electronic communication, and\n(b) 14 days after the end of the final tax period in the year covered by the return in any other case.\n(4) But paragraph (3) does not apply in relation to primary Class 1 contributions in a case where those contributions were deducted in error and the excess deduction has not been refunded to the employee.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 11ZA inserted (6.4.2012) by The Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/821), regs. 1(1), 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 11ZA(1) inserted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment and Application of Schedule 38 to the Finance Act 2012) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/622), regs. 1, 9(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 11ZA(3A) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1016), regs. 1(1), 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 11ZA heading inserted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment and Application of Schedule 38 to the Finance Act 2012) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/622), regs. 1, 9(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1004/schedule/4/paragraph/11ZA",
    "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."
}