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Regulation 7A Conditions relating to national insurance and relevant earningsF1

(1)

A claimant’s relevant earnings for the purposes of paragraph 1(2)(a) of Schedule 1 to the Act (employment and support allowance: conditions relating to national insurance) are the total amount of the claimant’s earnings at the lower earnings limit for the base tax year.

(2)

For the purposes of paragraph (1), earnings which exceed the lower earnings limit are to be disregarded.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Reg. 7A inserted (1.11.2010) by The Social Security (Contribution Conditions for Jobseekers Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2446), regs. 1, 3(2)

Notes on the whole SI

Textual amendments

F1

Section 3(3) is cited for the power to prescribe a payment under paragraph (b) of the definition of “pension payment”.

F2

Section 22 is cited insofar as it relates to paragraphs 1 to 3, 6, 7, 8(1), 9 and 10 of Schedule 2.

F3

Section 24(1) is cited for the definition of “employment” and “employed”, “period of limited capability for work”, “prescribed”, “regulations” and “week”.

F4

Paragraph 6(5) of Schedule 1 is cited for the definition of “couple”, “education” and “remunerative work”.

F5

2007 c. 5.

F6

1992 c. 5.

F7

1998 c. 14.