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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-earnings-factor-amendment-regulations-1991/schedule/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1165",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Earnings Factor) Amendment Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-earnings-factor-amendment-regulations-1991",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In this Part of this Schedule—\n“Class 1 contributions” means primary Class 1 contributions;\n“contracted-out contributions” means primary Class 1 contributions paid on earnings in respect ofa person’s contracted-out employment being earnings in excess of thecurrent lower earnings limit or the prescribed equivalent if he is paidotherwise than weekly;\n“the standard level” in relation to any year means that year’s lower earnings limit forClass 1 contributions multiplied by 50; and\neach paragraph has effect subject to the provisions of all laterparagraphs.\n(2) Paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 below shall apply for the purposes specifiedin section 13(2) of the Act, and paragraph 5 below for the purposes of section 35 ofthe Social Security Pensions Act1975 (earner’s guaranteed minimum).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 13(2) was amended by the Social Security Act1986 (c. 50), Schedule 8, paragraph 2 and Schedule 10, paragraph 72(a),and subsection (2)(c) was inserted by the Social Security Pensions Act1975 (c. 60), Schedule 4, paragraph 38(a) and amended by the SocialSecurity Act 1986, section 18(1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1975 c. 60; in section 35, subsection (1) was modifiedby S.I. 1987/1099, Schedule 3A, paragraph 2 and by S.I. 1987/1118,regulation 4(4); subsection (2) was amended by the Social Security Act1986, Schedule 8, paragraph 8; subsection (3) was substituted by theSocial Security Act 1986, section 9(1); subsection (4) was amended bythe Social Security Act 1979 (c. 18), Schedule 3, paragraph 13;subsection (5) was modified by the Social Security (MiscellaneousProvisions) Act 1977 (c. 5), section 21, by S.I. 1984/380, regulation44(a) and by S.I. 1987/1118, regulation 4(5), and was amended by theSocial Security Act 1979, Schedule 3, paragraph 18(a) and by the SocialSecurity Act 1988 (c. 7), Schedule 2, paragraph 1(2) and (3); subsection(6) was amended by the Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act1977, section 3(2); subsections (6A) and (6B) were inserted by theSocial Security Act 1986, section 9(2); subsection (7) was amended bythe Social Security Act 1979, Schedule 3, paragraph 18(b) and by theSocial Security Act 1985 (c. 53), Schedule 3, paragraphs 2 and 7, and wasmodified by S.I. 1984/380, regulation 44(b) and S.I. 1987/1118,regulation 4(6); subsection (8) was amended by the Social Security Act1985, Schedule 3, Part II, paragraph 8, and was modified by S.I.1987/1099, Schedule 3A, paragraph 3 and S.I. 1987/1118, regulation 4(7);subsection (8A) was inserted by the Social Security Act 1985, Schedule3, Part II, paragraph 8."
    }
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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