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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-reduction-scotland-regulations-2021/regulation-41",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-reduction-scotland-regulations-2021/regulation-41.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2021/249",
  "legislation_title": "The Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-reduction-scotland-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/41",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "41",
  "heading": "Average weekly unearned income",
  "text": "(1) For the purpose of regulation 38(2)(b), an applicant’s unearned income must, except where paragraph (2) applies, be estimated over a period that is appropriate to allow the applicant’s average weekly income to be estimated accurately but the length of the period is not in any case to exceed 52 weeks ....\n(2) The period over which any benefit under the benefit Acts is to be taken into account is the period in respect of which that benefit is payable.\n(3) For the purposes of this regulation unearned income is to be calculated in accordance with Chapter 4 of this Part.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 41(1) omitted (1.4.2023) by virtue of The Council Tax Reduction and Council Tax (Discounts) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/38), regs. 1, 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 41 in force at 1.4.2022, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2021/249/regulation/41",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:55:10.625954+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."
}