Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2011

Amendment of section 13 of Principal Act.

3.— (1) Section 13(2) of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) in paragraph (b) (amended by section 12 of the Social Welfare Act 2010 ) by deleting “paragraph (ba) and to”,

(b) by deleting paragraph (ba) (inserted by section 12 of the Social Welfare Act 2010 ), and

(c) by substituting the following paragraph for paragraph (d) (amended by section 13 of the Social Welfare Act 2010 ):

“(d) Subject to paragraph (da), subsection (8) and to regulations under section 14, where in any contribution week a payment is made to or for the benefit of an employed contributor in respect of reckonable earnings of that employed contributor, a contribution shall be payable by the employed contributor’s employer—

(i) at the percentage rate specified in the Table to this paragraph of the amount of the reckonable earnings in that week to which that payment relates where those reckonable earnings do not exceed €356 (or the equivalent thereof in the case of an employed contributor remunerated otherwise than on a weekly basis), and

(ii) at the rate of 10.05 per cent of the amount of the reckonable earnings in that week to which that payment relates where those reckonable earnings exceed €356 (or the equivalent thereof in the case of an employed contributor remunerated otherwise than on a weekly basis).

TABLE

Contribution payable by employed contributor’s employer where the weekly reckonable earnings do not exceed €356

Period for which contribution payable

3.9 per cent

2 July 2011 to 31 December 2011

3.9 per cent

1 January 2012 to 31 December 2012

3.9 per cent

1 January 2013 to 31 December 2013

7.8 per cent

1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014 and each subsequent contribution year

”.

(2) This section comes into operation on 2 July 2011.