{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-mariners-benefits-regulations-1975/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-mariners-benefits-regulations-1975/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1975/529",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Mariners' Benefits) Regulations 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-mariners-benefits-regulations-1975",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Modification of contribution conditions for receiving benefit in certain circumstances, in respect of mariners employed on board foreign-going ships",
  "text": "Where, on a claim for benefit, a contribution condition that the contributor concerned must in respect of the relevant past year have—\n(a) either paid or been credited with contributions of a relevant class and the earnings factor derived from those contributions must not be less than a specified multiple of that year’s lower earnings limit; or\n(b) either paid contributions or been credited with earnings as specified in section 2 of the Jobseekers Act 1995, and the earnings factor derived from earnings upon which contributions have been paid or from earnings credited must not be less than a specified multiple of that year’s lower earnings limit,\ncannot apart from this regulation be satisfied because the contributor concerned has been employed during the relevant past year in employment as a mariner on a foreign-going voyage in respect of which contributions were payable but have not yet been recorded, the contributor shall be deemed, until contributions have been recorded in respect of that voyage, to have paid contributions, in respect of earnings equal to the lower earnings limit, for each week in the period beginning on the Sunday of the week in which the voyage began and ending at the end of that year or (if earlier) when the voyage ended.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7 substituted (7.10.1996) by The Social Security and Child Support (Jobseeker’s Allowance) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1345), regs. 1, 21(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/529/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:12:32.457386+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."
}