# Social Security Pensions Act 1975, Paragraph 1

Extent: E+W+S

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—
(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;
(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;
(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
(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;
and 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/60/schedule/2/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-pensions-act-1975/schedule-2/paragraph-1
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