{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-pensions-act-1975/schedule-2/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-pensions-act-1975/schedule-2/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1975/60",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Pensions Act 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-pensions-act-1975",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In relation to employments which are or at any time have been contracted-out employments, and to the operation of schemes by reference to which such employments are or have been contracted-out, provision may be made by regulations—\n(a) for treating an earner’s employment, where it ends before a person succeeds to the business of the earner’s employer, as having been employment under the employer’s successor;\n(b) for disregarding changes in an earner’s employment due to the death of an employer or other cause, or any cesser of contracted-out employment so due, or for treating employment under one employer as a continuation of that under another and treating any contracting-out certificate issued to, or election made by, the former employer as issued to or made by the latter;\n(c) for disregarding temporary interruptions in an earner’s employment or contracted-out employment, and for treating the employment in either case as continuing during the interruption; and\n(d) generally as to the circumstances in which an earner’s employment is or is not to be treated as having begun, or as having come to an end;\nand references in this paragraph to an earner’s employment beginning or ending shall include references to his employment becoming or ceasing to be contracted-out employment.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/60/schedule/2/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:36:35.649726+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."
}