Paragraph 4

England and Wales

(1)

The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision for calculating the amount which is to be taken into account as a person’s available annual income and for specifying a factor appropriate to it.

(2)

The regulations may—

(a)

provide for arriving at a person’s available annual income by deducting from the sums taken into account as his annual income sums related to his needs and commitments, and may exclude sums from those to be taken into account as a person’s annual income, and

(b)

specify different amounts and different factors for different circumstances.

(3)

Regulations under this paragraph—

(a)

may make different provision with respect to different cases or descriptions of case, including different provision for different areas, and

(b)

shall be made by statutory instrument which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

Notes on Schedule 9

Textual amendments

F1: Sch. 9 repealed (11.10.1993) by 1993 c. 28, s. 187(2), Sch. 22; S.I. 1993/2134, arts. 2, 4(b), Sch. 2 (with saving in Sch. 1 para. 4(1)).