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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-jobseekers-allowance-regulations-2013/regulation-60",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2013/9780111531921",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-jobseekers-allowance-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/60",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "60",
  "heading": "Earnings of self-employed earners",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), “earnings”, in the case of employment as a self-employed earner, means the gross receipts of the employment.\n(2) “Earnings” does not include—\n(a) where a claimant is involved in providing board and lodging accommodation for which a charge is payable, any payment by way of such a charge;\n(b) any payment made to the claimant with whom a person is accommodated by virtue of arrangements made—\n(i) under section 22C(2), (3), (5) or (6)(a) or (b) of the Children Act 1989 (provision of accommodation and maintenance for a child whom the local authority is looking after);\n(ii) by a local authority under section 26 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (manner of provision of accommodation to child looked after by local authority); or\n(iii) by a local authority under regulation 33 or 51 of the Looked After Children (Scotland) Regulations 2009 (fostering and kinship care allowances and fostering allowances); or\n(iv) by a voluntary organisation under section 59(1)(a) of the Children Act 1989 (provision of accommodation by voluntary organisations);\n(c) any payment made to the claimant for a person (“the person concerned”), who is not normally a member of the claimant’s household but is temporarily in the claimant’s care, by—\n(i) the National Health Service Commissioning Board;\n(ii) a local authority but excluding payments of housing benefit made in respect of the person concerned;\n(iii) a voluntary organisation;\n(iv) the person concerned pursuant to section 26(3A) of the National Assistance Act 1948;\n(v) a clinical commissioning group established under section 14D of the Health Service Act; or\n(vi) a Local Health Board established by an order made under section 11 of the Health Service (Wales) Act;\n(d) any sports award.\n(3) In this regulation, “board and lodging accommodation” means—\n(a) accommodation provided to a person or, if they are a member of a family, to them or any other member of their family, for a charge which is inclusive of—\n(i) the provision of that accommodation; and\n(ii) at least some cooked or prepared meals which are cooked or prepared (by a person other than the person to whom the accommodation is provided or a member of their family) and consumed in that accommodation or associated premises; or\n(b) accommodation provided to a person in a hotel, guest house, lodging house or some similar establishment,\nexcept accommodation provided by a close relative of theirs or of any other member of their family, or other than on a commercial basis.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c.41. Section 22C was inserted by section 8(1) of the Children and Young Persons Act 2008 (c.23)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1995 c.36. Section 26 was amended by Schedule 3 to the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 4) and paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 to the Children and Young Persons Act 2008."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2009/210. Regulation 33 was amended by S.S.I. 2009/290."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 59(1)(a) was amended by section 49 of the Children Act 2004 (c.31)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "The National Health Service Commissioning Board is established by section 1H of the National Health Service Act 2006 (c.41), as inserted by section 9 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c.7)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1948 c.29. Section 26(3A) was inserted by section 42 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c.19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "Section 14D was inserted by section 25 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  },
  "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."
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