# The Family Credit (General) Amendment Regulations 1992, Regulation 5: Substitution of regulation 17 of the General Regulations


For regulation 17 of the General Regulations (periods to be disregarded) there shall be substituted the following regulation—
“Periods to be disregarded
17 Where a claimant is a self-employed earner—
(a) there shall be disregarded any week or period of weeks in his assessment period during which no activities have been carried out for the purposes of the business; and
(b) his normal weekly earnings shall be determined by reference to his weekly earnings in the remainder of that period (the reduced period), and in such a case, any reference in these Regulations to an assessment period shall be construed as a reference to that reduced period.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/573/regulation/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-general-amendment-regulations-1992/regulation-5
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