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as a part-time fire-fighter employed by a fire and rescue authority constituted by a scheme under section 2 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004^f1 or a scheme to which section 4 of that Act applies;

a part-time fire-fighter employed by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service^f2;

as an auxiliary coastguard in respect of coast rescue activities;

in the manning or launching of a lifeboat if the employment is part-time;

as a member of any territorial or reserve force prescribed in Part I of Schedule 6 to the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001^f3.

any of the earnings of the applicant or, if the applicant has a partner, the applicant’s partner, or both of them, are disregarded under sub-paragraph (1); and

either of them has, or both of them have, other earnings,

so much of those other earnings as would not, in the aggregate with the earnings disregarded under that sub-paragraph, exceed £20.