Social Security (Treasury Supplement to and Allocation of Contributions) (Re-rating) Order 1988

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1988/676

1988No. 676

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Security (Treasury Supplement to and Allocation of

Contributions) (Re-rating) Order 1988

31stMarch1988

6thApril1988

Whereas a draft of this Order was laid before Parliament in accordance with the provisions of section 167(1) of the Social Security Act 1975 ( a) and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State for Social Services, with the consent of the Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 1(5A) and 134(4A) and (5A) of the Social Security Act 1975 ( b) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:-

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Social Security (Treasury Supplement to and Allocation of Contributions) (Re-rating) Order 1988 and shall come into force on6th April 1988.

(2) In this Order "the Act" means the Social Security Act 1975.

Alteration of Treasury supplement to contributions

2. In section 1(5) of the Act (Treasury supplement to contributions) ( c) for the words "7 per cent." ( d) there shall be substituted the words "5 per cent.".

Percentage rates of appropriate national health service allocation

3.-(1) Section 134(4) of the Act ( e) (allocation of contributions) shall be amended in accordance with the provisions of this article.

(2) In the definition of "the appropriate national health service allocation"-

(a) in paragraph (a) (primary Class 1 contributions) for the words "0.85 per cent." ( f) there shall be substituted the words "0.95 per cent.";(b) in paragraph (b) (secondary Class 1 contributions) for the words "0.7 per cent." there shall be substituted the words "0.8 per cent.".

(a) 1975 c.14; section 167(1) was amended by the Social Security (Contributions) Act 1981 (c.1), section 4(5), and by the Social Security Act 1986 (c.50), sections 62(3) and 74(4).

(b) Section 1(5A) was inserted by the Social Security (Contributions) Act 1981, section 2(2) and was amended by the Social Security (Contributions) Act 1982 (c.2), section 2(2); section 134(4A) was inserted by the Social Security (Contributions) Act 1981, section 3(3); section 134(5A) was inserted by the Social Security Act 1986, section 74(3).

(c) Section 1(5) was amended by the Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1977 (c.5), section 24(6) and Schedule 2, and by the Employment Protection Act 1975 (c.71), section 40(1).

(d) See S.I. 1987/48...

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