{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-earnings-factor-regulations-1979/schedule/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-earnings-factor-regulations-1979/schedule/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1979/676",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Earnings Factor) Regulations 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-earnings-factor-regulations-1979",
  "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 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“the standard level” in relation to any year means that year’s lower earnings limit for primary Class 1 contributions multiplied by 50; and\neach paragraph has effect subject to the provisions of all later paragraphs.\n(2) Paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 below shall apply for the purposes specified in section 13(2) of the Act, or section 2(4) of the Pensions Act 2014, and paragraph 5 below for the purposes of section 35 of the Social Security Pensions Act1975 (earner’s guaranteed minimum).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Pt. I substituted (6.6.1991) by The Social Security (Earnings Factor) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/1165), regs. 1, 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 1(1) substituted (6.4.2003) by The Social Security (Earnings Factor) Amendment Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/608), regs. 1(1), 2(a) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 1(1) inserted (6.4.2003) by The Social Security (Earnings Factor) Amendment Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/608), regs. 1(1), 2(b) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 1(2) inserted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Pensions Act 2014 (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1985), arts. 1(2)(b), 6(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/676/schedule/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:17:33.755297+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."
}