{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-credits-amendment-and-earnings-factor-transitional-regulations-1978/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-credits-amendment-and-earnings-factor-transitional-regulations-1978/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1978/409",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Credits) Amendment and (Earnings Factor) Transitional Regulations 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-credits-amendment-and-earnings-factor-transitional-regulations-1978",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Transitional provision relating to earnings factors",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where, under paragraph 8(3) of Part II of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Act 1975 (satisfaction of contribution conditions in early years of contribution), a person's contributions paid at the contracted-out percentage are treated as having been paid in respect of any tax year which is not later than that ending with 5th April 1978.\n(2) For the purpose of deriving earnings factors for any such tax year the amount of those contributions shall be increased to what it would have been if they had been paid at the normal percentage.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1979/345",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Benefit) (Transitional) Regulations 1979"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1978/409/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:37:52.329834+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."
}