This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in SI 2016/352 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
Statutory Instruments
2016 No. 647
Social Security
The Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2016
Made
13th June 2016
Laid before Parliament
14th June 2016
Coming into force
6th July 2016
The Treasury make the following Regulations in exercise of powers conferred by section 3(2) and (3) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992( 1 ) and section 3(2) and (3), and 171(10) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992( 2 ) and now exercisable by them.
The Secretary of State and the Department for Communities( 3 ) concur with the making of these Regulations.
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2016 and come into force on 6th July 2016.
Amendment of the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001
2. In Part 8 of Schedule 3 of the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001(travelling, relocation and other expenses and allowances of employment)( 4 ) in paragraph 3ZB (travel for necessary attendance: employment intermediaries)( 5 ) for sub-paragraph (6)(a) substitute—
“ (a) in section 51(1) of that Act—
(i) disregard “either” in the opening words, and
(ii) disregard paragraph (b) (and the preceding “or”), and ” .
Charlie Elphicke
David Evennett
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
13th June 2016
The Secretary of State concurs.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Altmann
Minister of State
Department for Work and Pensions
9th June 2016
The Department for Communities concurs.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 8th June 2016
Anne McCleary
A senior officer of the Department for Communities
8th June 2016
1992 c. 4 . Section 3(2) was amended by paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 to, the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) Act 1999 (c. 2) so that the power to make Regulations became exercisable by the Treasury with the concurrence of the Secretary of State.
1992 c. 7 . Section 3(2) was amended by paragraph 4 of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999/671 (“the 1999 Order”) so that the power to make the Regulations became exercisable by the Treasury with the concurrence of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland. Section 171(10) was amended by paragraph 28 of Schedule 3 to the 1999 Order.
The functions of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland under the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7) were transferred to the Department for Social Development by Article 8(b) of, and Part 2 of Schedule 6 to, the Departments (Transfer and Assignment of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 ( S.R. (NI) 1999 No 481 ). The Department for Social Development was subsequently renamed the Department for Communities, see section 1(7) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 5 (N.I.) ).
S.I. 2001/1004 , amended by 2016/352 . There are other amending instruments but none is relevant.
Paragraph 3ZB was inserted by S.I. 2016/352 .