{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-consequential-provisions-no-2-regulations-2008/regulation-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-consequential-provisions-no-2-regulations-2008/regulation-47.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1554",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-consequential-provisions-no-2-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/47",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992",
  "text": "(1) Section 44A of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (deemed earnings factors) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (2)(d)—\n(a) after “incapacity benefit” insert “ or qualifying employment and support allowance ”; and\n(b) in sub-paragraph (i) after “Schedule 3” add “ or, as the case may be, paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Welfare Reform Act ”.\n(3) After subsection (6) add—\n“(7) In subsection (2)(d) “qualifying employment and support allowance” means contributory employment and support allowance where—\n(a) that allowance was payable for a continuous period of 52 weeks;\n(b) that allowance included the support component under section 2(2) of the Welfare Reform Act; or\n(c) in the case of—\n(i) a man born between 6th April 1944 and 5th April 1947; or\n(ii) a woman born between 6th April 1949 and 5th April 1951,\nthat allowance was payable for a continuous period of 13 weeks immediately following a period throughout which statutory sick pay was payable.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Section 44A was inserted by section 30(3) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c. 19)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1554/regulation/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:29:45.724174+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."
}