Regulation 20 Determination of weekly income

(1)

For the purposes of regulations 17 (average weekly earnings of employed earners) and 19 (average weekly income other than earnings), where the period in respect of which a payment is made—

(a)

does not exceed a week, the weekly amount shall be the amount of that payment;

(b)

exceeds a week, the weekly amount shall be determined—

(i)

in a case where that period is a month, by multiplying the amount of the payment by 12 and dividing the product by 52;

(ii)

in any other case, by dividing the amount of the payment by the number equal to the number of days in the period to which it relates and multiplying the quotient by 7.

(2)

For the purposes of regulation 18 (average weekly earnings of self-employed earners) the weekly amount shall be determined by dividing the relevant person’s earnings during the assessment period by the number equal to the number of days in the assessment period and multiplying the quotient by 7.