{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-general-regulations-1992/regulation-4",
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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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Remunerative work",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, a person shall be treated for the purposes of these Regulations as engaged in remunerative work if he is engaged, or, where his hours of work fluctuate, he is engaged on average, for not less than 16 hours a week, in work for which payment is made or which is done in expectation of payment.\n(2) In determining the number of hours for which a person is engaged in work where his hours of work fluctuate, regard shall be had to the average of hours worked over—\n(a) if there is a recognisable cycle of work, the period of one complete cycle (including, where the cycle involves periods in which the person does no work, those periods but disregarding any other absences);\n(b) in any other case, the period of 5 weeks immediately prior to the date of claim, or such other length of time as may, in the particular case, enable the person’s weekly average hours of work to be determined more accurately.\n(3) Where no recognisable cycle has been established in respect of a person’s work, regard shall be had to the number of hours or, where those hours will fluctuate, the average of the hours, which he is expected to work in a week.\n(4) A person shall be treated as engaged in remunerative work during any period for which he is absent from work referred to in paragraph (1) if the absence is either without good cause or by reason of a recognised, customary or other holiday.\n(5) A person on income support for more than 3 days in any benefit week shall be treated as not being in remunerative work in that week.\n(6) A person shall not be treated as engaged in remunerative work on any day on which the person is on maternity leave or is absent from work because he is ill.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 4(6) added (4.10.1993) by The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/2118), regs. 1(1), 17"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 1.4.1993, see reg. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
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    {
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      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (State Pension Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003"
    },
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      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (State Pension Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/1996/1510",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit, Council Tax Benefit and Supply of Information (Jobseeker’s Allowance) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
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      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Housing Benefit, Council Tax Benefit, State Pension Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
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      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Housing Benefit, Council Tax Benefit, State Pension Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2689",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Paternity and Adoption) Amendment Regulations 2002"
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    {
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      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Amendment (Sports Awards) Regulations 1999"
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    {
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      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (New Deal Pilot) Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/560",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1995"
    },
    {
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      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1995"
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    {
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    {
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