{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-general-amendment-no-4-regulations-1988/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-general-amendment-no-4-regulations-1988/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1970",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Credit (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-general-amendment-no-4-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 18 of the General Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 18 of the General Regulations (calculation of weekly amount of income) for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—\n“(2) For the purposes of regulation 15 (normal weekly earnings of self-employed earners) the weekly amount of earnings of a claimant shall be determined—\n(a) except where sub-paragraph (b) applies, by dividing his earnings received in the assessment period or, as the case may be, estimated for that period by the number equal to the number of weeks in that period;\n(b) in a case where regulation 15(1)(b) applies, by multiplying his earnings relevant to the assessment period (whether or not received in that period) by 7 and dividing the product by the number equal to the number of days in that period.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1970/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:55:06.109169+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."
}