{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-earnings-factor-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2003/161",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Earnings Factor) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-earnings-factor-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (rules for the ascertainment of earnings factors) for the definition of “Class 1 contributions” there shall be substituted the following definition –\n““Class 1 contributions” means primary Class 1 contributions paid or treated as paid on so much of a person’s earnings as does not exceed the current upper earnings limit (or the prescribed equivalent);”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Schedule 1 was amended by the Schedule to S.R. 1991 No. 202"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 5(4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992; section 5 was substituted by paragraph 1 of Schedule 10 to the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/161/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:03:39.738909+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."
}