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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-general-regulations-1992/regulation-17",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1814",
  "legislation_title": "The Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992",
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  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Calculation of weekly income",
  "text": "For the purposes of regulations 14 to 16 (average weekly income), where the period in respect of which a payment is made—\n(a) does not exceed a week, the weekly amount shall be the amount of that payment;\n(b) exceeds a week, the weekly amount shall be determined—\n(i) in a case where that period is a month, by multiplying the amount of the payment by 12 and dividing the product by 52,\n(ii) in any other case, by dividing the amount of the payment by the number equal to the number of days in the period to which it relates and multiplying the quotient by 7.",
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  "version": "current",
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      "type": "I",
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      "text": "Reg. 17 in force at 1.4.1993, see reg. 1(b)"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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