Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Contributions) (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 5th October 1989.

In these Regulations–

• “the Act” means the Social Security Act 1975^f1;

• “the principal Regulations” means the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 1979^f2;

and other expressions have the same meanings as in that Act or, as the case may be, those Regulations.

Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in the principal Regulations.