Social Security (Credits) Amendment Regulations 1977
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1977 No. 788
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Social Security (Credits) Amendment Regulations 1977
Made 5th May 1977
Laid before Parliament 6th May 1977
The Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 13(4) of the Social Security Act 1975, as extended by section 2 of the Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1977, and section 2(1) of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 to, the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1975 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following regulations which contain provisions made by virtue of section 2 of the said Act of 1977 and which accordingly, by virtue of section 24(4) of that Act, are not subject to the requirements of section 139(1) of the Social Security Act 1975 for prior reference to the National Insurance Advisory Committee:—
Citation, interpretation and commencement
1.—(1) These regulations, which may be cited as the Social Security (Credits) Amendment Regulations 1977, shall be read as one with the 1, (hereinafter referred to as “”) as amended2and, subject to the following paragraph of this regulation, shall come into operation on 29th May 1977.
(2) For the purpose only of determining, before 29th May 1977, claims for, or questions arising as to, benefit for any period after 28th May 1977, these regulations shall come into operation on 9th May 1977.
Amendment of regulation 9 of the principal regulations
2. Regulation 9 of the principal regulations shall be amended by the insertion at the beginning of paragraph (1) of the words and by the addition after paragraph (8) of the following paragraph:—
“9 A Class 1 credit to which a person is entitled in respect of any week by virtue of the provisions of this regulation shall be a credit for the purpose of enabling him to satisfy the second contribution condition for entitlement to unemployment benefit, sickness benefit, maternity grant or maternity allowance only if—
(a) in respect of the relevant past year, that person has an earnings factor of not less than thirteen times the lower earnings limit for that year which, for the purposes of entitlement to unemployment benefit, is derived from Class 1 contributions actually paid or, for any other purpose, is derived from Class 1 or Class 2 contributions actually paid; or
(b) in respect of...
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