{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-reduction-schemes-prescribed-requirements-england-regulations-2012/schedule-4/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-reduction-schemes-prescribed-requirements-england-regulations-2012/schedule-4/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2885",
  "legislation_title": "The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements) (England) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-reduction-schemes-prescribed-requirements-england-regulations-2012",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In a case of earnings from any employment or employments to which sub-paragraph (2) applies, £20.\n(2) This paragraph applies to employment—\n(a) 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 or a scheme to which section 4 of that Act applies;\n(ab) as a part-time fire-fighter employed by a fire and rescue authority created by an order under section 4A of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004;\n(b) a part-time fire-fighter employed by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service established under section 1A of the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005;\n(c) as an auxiliary coastguard in respect of coast rescue activities;\n(d) in the manning or launching of a lifeboat if the employment is part-time;\n(e) as a member of any territorial or reserve force prescribed in Part I of Schedule 6 to the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001.\n(3) If—\n(a) any of the earnings of the applicant or, if he has a partner, his partner, or both of them, are disregarded under sub-paragraph (1); and\n(b) either of them has, or both of them have, other earnings,\nso much of those other earnings as would not, in the aggregate with the earnings disregarded under that sub-paragraph, exceed £20.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 3(2)(ab) inserted (1.10.2017) by The Fire and Rescue Authority (Police and Crime Commissioner) (Application of Local Policing Provisions, Inspection, Powers to Trade and Consequential Amendments) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/863), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 8(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 3(2)(b) substituted (13.1.2014 with application in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3181), regs. 1(1), 2(10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 3 in force at 27.11.2012, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2004 c. 21; amendments made to sections 2 and 4 are not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/1004."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2885/schedule/4/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:13:07.880127+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."
}