# The Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001, Paragraph 21D: Exceptions to paragraph 21A

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) This paragraph applies to—
(a) an individual who is a practising member of a religious society or order whose beliefs are incompatible with the use of electronic communications;
(b) a partnership, if all the partners fall within sub-paragraph (a);
(c) a company, if all the directors and the company secretary fall within sub-paragraph (a);
(d) a care and support employer.
(e) an employer to whom a direction has been given under sub-paragraph (12).
But this is subject to sub-paragraph (2B).
(2) A Real Time Information employer to whom this paragraph applies may proceed in accordance with this paragraph instead of paragraph 21A.
(2A) Before 6th April 2014, a Real Time Information employer to whom this paragraph applies may proceed as if the employer were a non-Real Time Information employer and accordingly the provisions of this Schedule apply to such an employer.
(2B) This paragraph does not apply if a Real Time Information employer within sub-paragraph (1) makes a return using an approved method of electronic communications.
(3) On and after 6th April 2014, the Real Time Information employer must deliver to HMRC the information specified in Schedule 4A in respect of each employee to whom a payment of ... earnings is made in a tax quarter unless the employer is not required to maintain a deductions working sheet for any employees and, for the purposes of this paragraph, references in Schedule 4A to a payment of ... earnings shall be read as if they were references to all the payments made to the employee in the tax quarter.
(4) The information must be included in a return in such a form as HMRC may approve or prescribe.
(5) The return required under sub-paragraph (4) must be delivered within 14 days after the end of the tax quarter the return relates to.
(6) If payments of ... earnings have been made to more than one employee in the tax quarter, the return under sub-paragraph (4) must include the information required by Schedule 4A in respect of each employee to whom a payment of ... earnings has been made.
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(9) Schedule 24 to the Finance Act 2007, as that Schedule applies to income tax returns, shall apply in relation to the requirement to make a return contained in sub-paragraph (4).
(10) In sub-paragraph (1)(c), “company” means a body corporate or unincorporated association but does not include a partnership.
(11) In sub-paragraph (1)(d), “care and support employer” means an individual (“the employer”) who employs a person to provide domestic or personal services at or from the employer's home where—
(a) the services are provided to the employer or a member of the employer's family;
(b) the recipient of the services has a physical or mental disability, or is elderly or infirm; and
(c) it is the employer who delivers the return (and not some other person on the employer's behalf).
(12) Where the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs are satisfied that—
(a) it is not reasonably practicable for an employer to make a return using an approved method of electronic communications, and
(b) it is the employer who delivers the return (and not some other person on the employer’s behalf),
they may make a direction specifying that the employer is not required to make a return using an approved method of electronic communications.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1004/schedule/4/paragraph/21D (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-regulations-2001/schedule-4/paragraph-21D
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