Social
Security (Classification and Contributions) (Amendment) (Jersey) Order 2021
Made 20th December 2021
Coming into
force 1st January 2022
Part 1
Social Security (Classification)
(Jersey) Order 1974 amended
1 Social Security
(Classification) (Jersey) Order 1974 amended
This Part amends the Social
Security (Classification) (Jersey) Order 1974.
2 Article 3 heading amended and new
Article 3A inserted
(1) In
the heading to Article 3, at the end there is inserted “: Schedule 2”.
(2) After
Article 3 there is inserted –
“3A Persons to be treated as
employers: employment by 2 or more employers
(1) This
paragraph applies, in relation to a contribution month, where –
(a) a person (“P”) is
employed by 2 or more employers who carry on business in association;
(b) the amount of P’s
earnings, in respect of each of those employments, does not exceed the Class 1
minimum earnings threshold (but the total amount of P’s earnings from those
employments does exceed the threshold); and
(c) the employers agree that
the person employed is to be treated as being employed by only one of them (the
“nominated employer”).
(2) For
the purposes of the Law –
(a) the nominated employer is
to be treated as P’s employer; and
(b) P’s earnings from all of
the employments mentioned in paragraph (1) are treated as earnings paid in
respect of the employment with the nominated employer.”.
3 Part 2 of Schedule 1 (persons treated as
Class 2 insured persons) amended
In Part 2 of Schedule 1,
the following paragraphs are deleted –
(a) paragraph 8 in column (A)
and paragraph 8 in column (B) (employment as a sub-postmaster);
(b) paragraph 9 in column (A)
and paragraph 9 in column (B) (employment for less than 8 hours
a week);
(c) paragraph 13 in column
(A) and paragraph 13 in column (B) (employment as an interviewer).
Part 2
Other
amendment, citation and commencement
4 Social Security
(Contributions) (Jersey) Order 1975 amended
For Article 8(1A)
(imprisonment or detention in legal custody) of the Social
Security (Contributions) (Jersey) Order 1975, there is substituted –
“(1A) But
paragraph (1) does not except a person from liability to pay a
contribution for any month if –
(a) in that month, the person
undertakes paid work outside the prison or other place of detention as part of
a programme of rehabilitation; and
(b) the amount of the
person’s earnings in that month is equal to or exceeds the Class 1 minimum
earnings threshold.”.”
5 Citation and commencement
This Order may be cited as the Social Security (Classification and
Contributions) (Amendment) (Jersey) Order 2021 and comes into force on 1st
January 2022.
Deputy J.A. Martin of St.
Helier
Minister for Social Security