Statutory Instruments
2002 No. 3120
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Social Security Contributions (Decisions and Appeals) (Amendment) Regulations 2002
Made
16th December 2002
Laid before Parliament
17th December 2002
Coming into force
7th January 2003
The Commissioners of Inland Revenue, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 9, 11, 13, 24 and 25(3) of the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) Act 1999( 1 ), and Articles 8, 10, 12 and 23(5) of the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999( 2 ), and with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor and the Scottish Ministers( 3 ) insofar as that concurrence is required, hereby make the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security Contributions (Decisions and Appeals) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 7th January 2003.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Social Security (Contributions) (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999( 4 ).
Amendments to the principal Regulations
3. —(1) In the provisions of the principal Regulations specified in paragraph (2) for “statutory sick pay or statutory maternity pay” substitute “statutory sick pay, statutory maternity pay, statutory paternity pay or statutory adoption pay”.
(2) The provisions are—
(a) regulation 3(3);
(b) regulation 4(1)(a);
(c) regulation 8(4)(a)( 5 );
(d) regulation 11(7); and
(e) regulation 12(2)(a) and (3)(a).
Tim Flesher
Dave Hartnett
Two of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue
10th December 2002
The Lord Chancellor and the Scottish Ministers concur in the making of these Regulations.
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
Rosie Winterton
Parliamentary Secretary,
Lord Chancellor’s Department
12th December 2002
James Wallace
A Member of the Scottish Executive
16th December 2002
The functions of the Lord Advocate under section 13(1) of the Transfer Act, were transferred to the Secretary of State by Article 2(1) of, and the Schedule to, the Transfer of Functions (Lord Advocate and Secretary of State) Order 1999 ( S.I. 1999/678 ). Those functions were then treated as being exercisable in or as regards Scotland, for the purposes of section 63 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46) , by Article 3 of, and paragraph 22 of Schedule 1 to, the Scotland Act 1998 (Functions Exercisable in or as Regards Scotland) Order 1999 ( S.I. 1999/1748 ), and were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by Article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 1999 ( S.I. 1999/1750 ).
S.I.1999/1027 : the relevant amending instrument is S.I.2001/4023 .
Regulation 8 was amended by regulations 2 and 3 of S.I. 2001/4023 .