{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-general-amendment-regulations-1990/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-general-amendment-regulations-1990/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/574",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Credit (General) Amendment Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-general-amendment-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 5 of the General Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 5 of the General Regulations (engagement in remunerative work and normal engagement)–\n(a) in paragraph (1), at the beginning there shall be substituted for the words “Subject to paragraph (3)” the words “Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4),”;\n(b) for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following paragraph–\n“(2) Subject to paragraph (3), a person shall be treated, for the purposes of section 20(5)(b) of the Act, as normally engaged in remunerative work if–\n(a) the remunerative work in which he is engaged in the period specified in paragraph (1)(a) or (b) is work in which he is normally engaged; and\n(b) he is likely to be engaged in that work over a period commencing in the week in which the date of claim falls and being a period of 5 weeks or more.”;\n(c) after paragraph (3) there shall be added the following paragraph–\n“(4) In determining the number of hours for which a person carries out activities in the course of his work, that number shall include any time allowed to that person by his employer for a meal or for refreshment, but only where that person is, or expects to be, paid earnings in respect of that time.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/574/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:23:54.426545+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."
}