Regulation 4 Amendment of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975

The Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975^f1, as amended^f2, shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

In regulation 6 (starting credits for the purposes of a maternity grant) in sub-paragraph (a) after the words “under regulation 4” there shall be inserted the word “and”.

In regulation 9 (credits for unemployment or incapacity for work) for sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (4) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph:—

“(b)

the employment in which he was engaged was employed earner's employment which does not fall to be disregarded under sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph, and—

(i)

he was engaged in that employment on 1 day only in that week, and

(ii)

his earnings from that employment on that day were less than the lower earnings limit then in force.”.