# The Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006, Regulation 34: Earnings of self-employed earners

Extent: N.I.

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), “earnings”, in the case of employment as a self-employed earner, means the gross income of the employment ....
(2) “Earnings” shall not include any payment to which paragraph 27 or 28 of Schedule 6 refers nor shall it include any sports award.
(3) This paragraph applies to—
(a) royalties or other sums paid as a consideration for the use of, or the right to use, any copyright, design, patent or trade mark; or
(b) any payment in respect of any—
(i) book registered under the Public Lending Right Scheme 1982, or
(ii) work made under any international public lending right scheme that is analogous to the Public Lending Right Scheme 1982,
where the claimant is the first owner of the copyright, design, patent or trade mark, or an original contributor to the book or work concerned.
(4) Where the claimant’s earnings consist of any items to which paragraph (3) applies, those earnings shall be taken into account over a period equal to such number of weeks as is equal to the number obtained (and any fraction shall be treated as a corresponding fraction of a week) by dividing the earnings by the amount of housing benefit which would be payable had the payment not been made plus an amount equal to the total of the sums which would fall to be disregarded from the payment under Schedule 5 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of earnings) as appropriate in the claimant’s case.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/405/regulation/34 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-34
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