Statutory Instruments
2020 No. 923
Social Security
The Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 4) Regulations 2020
Made
3rd September 2020
Laid before Parliament
7th September 2020
Coming into force
29th September 2020
The Treasury, in exercise of the power conferred by section 3(2) and (3) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992( 1 ) and now exercisable by them, makes the following Regulations.
The Secretary of State concurs to the making of these Regulations.
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 4) Regulations 2020 and come into force on 29th September 2020.
Amendment to the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001
2. —(1)Schedule 3 (payments to be disregarded etc…) to the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001( 2 ) is amended as follows.
(2) In Part 7 (payments in respect of training and similar courses), after paragraph 12( 3 ) (payments made by employers to earners in full-time attendance at universities &c), insert—
“ Payments exempted from income tax under section 254A of ITEPA 2003 ( 4 )
13. A care leaver’s apprenticeship bursary payment which is exempted from income tax under section 254A of ITEPA 2003. ” .
Rebecca Harris
James Morris
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
3rd September 2020
The Secretary of State concurs.
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department of Work and Pensions
3rd September 2020
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 with effect from 1 April 1999.
Paragraph 12 was inserted by regulations 2 and 4 of S.I. 2005/728 with effect from 6 April 2005. The insertion has effect in relation to payments of earnings made in respect of the academic year beginning on 1 September 2005 and subsequent academic years: see regulation 1 of S.I. 2005/728 . Paragraph 12 was also amended by S.I. 2007/2401 .
Section 254A of ITEPA (c.1) was inserted by section 11 of the Finance Act 2020 (c. 14) .