{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-earnings-factor-amendment-regulations-2003/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-earnings-factor-amendment-regulations-2003/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/608",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Earnings Factor) Amendment Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-earnings-factor-amendment-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Earnings Factor Regulations",
  "text": "In paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 1 to the Earnings Factor Regulations (rules for the ascertainment of earnings factors)—\n(a) for the definitions of “Class 1 contributions” and “contracted-out contributions”, there shall be substituted the following definitions—\n““Class 1 contributions” means primary Class 1 contributions paid or treated as paid on so much of a person’s earnings as do not exceed the current upper earnings limit or the prescribed equivalent if he is paid otherwise than weekly;\n“contracted-out contributions” means primary Class 1 contributions paid or treated as paid on so much of a person’s earnings in respect of any contracted-out employment as exceed the current lower earnings limit but do not exceed the current upper earnings limit or the prescribed equivalents if he is paid otherwise than weekly;”;\n(b) in the definition of “the standard level”, after the words “lower earnings limit for” there shall be inserted the word “primary”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/608/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:29:57.228067+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."
}