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Paragraph 5B F1

(1)

Where the F2Secretary of State is calculating earnings of an employed earner or a self-employed earner under Part 1 of Schedule 1 and the information available in relation to those earnings is insufficient or unreliable, the Secretary of State may estimate those earnings and, in doing so, may make any assumptions as to any fact.

(2)

Where the F3Secretary of State is satisfied that the person is engaged in a particular occupation, whether as an employee or a self-employed person, the assumptions referred to in sub-paragraph (1) may include an assumption that the person has the average weekly earnings of a person engaged in that occupation in the United Kingdom or in any part of the United Kingdom.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Sch. 1 Ch. 3 para. 5B inserted (30.4.2012) by The Pensions Act 2014 (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Amendments) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/712), regs. 1(1), 5

F2

Words in Sch. 1 para. 5B(1) substituted (1.8.2012) by The Public Bodies (Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission: Abolition and Transfer of Functions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2007), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 110

F3

Words in Sch. 1 para. 5B(2) substituted (1.8.2012) by The Public Bodies (Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission: Abolition and Transfer of Functions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2007), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 110

Notes on the whole SI

Textual amendments

F1

Regulations revoked (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2013 2012 (S.I. 2012/2785), reg. 10(b)

F2

regulations revoked (3.3.2003 for specified purposes) by The Child Support (Maintenance Calculations and Special Cases) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2001/155), reg. 15(1) (with reg. 15(2)-(4))