{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-general-regulations-1992/regulation-15",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1814",
  "legislation_title": "The Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-general-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Average weekly earnings of self-employed earners",
  "text": "(1) Where a claimant’s income consists of earnings from employment as a selfemployed earner his average weekly earnings shall be estimated by reference to his earnings from that employment over such period as is appropriate in order that his average weekly earnings over the benefit period may be estimated accurately but the length of the period shall not in any case exceed a year.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation the claimant’s earnings shall be calculated in accordance with Chapter IV of this Part.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 15(1) substituted (4.10.1993) by The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/2118), regs. 1(1), 20"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 15 in force at 1.4.1993, see reg. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/574",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "word inserted by SI 2003/325 reg. 17 (as amended)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2634",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted by SI 2003/325 reg. 17 (as amended)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2634",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "word omitted by SI 2003/325 reg. 17 (as amended)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2634",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted by SI 2003/325 reg. 17 (as amended)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2634",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted by SI 2003/325 reg. 17 (as amended)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2275",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (State Pension Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/2327",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Housing Benefit, Council Tax Benefit, State Pension Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/2327",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Housing Benefit, Council Tax Benefit, State Pension Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/14",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Abolition of Benefit Periods) Amendment Regulations 2004"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1814/regulation/15",
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  },
  "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."
}