{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charge-benefits-general-regulations-1989/schedule-2/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charge-benefits-general-regulations-1989/schedule-2/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1321",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Charge Benefits (General) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charge-benefits-general-regulations-1989",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In a case to which neither paragraph 3 nor 4 applies to the claimant, £15 of earnings derived from one or more employments as–\n(a) a part-time fireman in a fire brigade maintained in pursuance of the Fire Services Acts 1947 to 1959;\n(b) an auxiliary coastguard in respect of coast rescue activities;\n(c) a person engaged part-time in the manning or launching of a life boat;\n(d) a member of any territorial or reserve force prescribed in Part I of Schedule 3 to the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 1979;\nbut, notwithstanding regulation 10 (calculation of income and capital of members of claimant’s family and of a polygamous marriage), if this paragraph applies to a claimant it shall not apply to his partner except to the extent specified in sub-paragraph (2).\n(2) If the claimant’s partner is engaged in employment–\n(a) specified in sub-paragraph (1), so much of his earnings as would not in aggregate with the amount of the claimant’s earnings disregarded under this paragraph exceed £15;\n(b) other than one specified in sub-paragraph (1), so much of his earnings from that employment up to £10 as would not in aggregate with the claimant’s earnings disregarded under this paragraph exceed £15.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 6 in force at 1.4.1990, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1947 c. 41, 1951 c. 27, 1959 c. 44."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1979/591; Part I of Schedule 3 substituted by S.I. 1980/1975."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1321/schedule/2/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:39:44.176575+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}