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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-northern-ireland-1987/regulation-29",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1987/459",
  "legislation_title": "The Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-regulations-northern-ireland-1987",
  "path": "regulation/29",
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  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Calculation of earnings derived from employed earner's employment and income other than earnings",
  "text": "(1) Except were regulation 33 (weekly amount of charitable or voluntary payment) applies, earnings derived from employment as an employed earner and income which does not consist of earnings shall be taken into account over a period determined in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (5) and at a weekly amount determined in accordance with regulation 32 (calculation of weekly amount of income).\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the period over which a payment is to be taken into account shall be—\n(a) in a case where it is payable in respect of a period, a period equal to the length of that period;\n(b) in any other case, 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 net earnings, or in the case of income which does not consist of earnings, the amount of that income by the amount of income support 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 that payment under Schedule 8 or, as the case may be, 9 (earnings and other income to be disregarded) as is appropriate in the claimant's case,\nand that period shall begin on the date on which the payment is treated as paid under regulation 31 (date on which income is treated as paid).\n(3) Where earnings not of the same kind are derived from the same source and the periods in respect of which those earnings would, but for this paragraph, fall to be taken into account—\n(a) overlap, wholly or partly, those earnings shall be taken into account over a period equal to the aggregate length of those periods;\n(b) and that period shall begin with the earliest date on which any part of those earnings would otherwise be treated as paid under regulation 31.\n(4) In a case to which paragraph (3) applies, any payment to which regulation 35(1)(b) or (c) (earnings of employed earners) applies shall be taken into account before a payment to which regulation 35(1)(d) applies but after any earnings normally derived from the employment.\n(5) For the purposes of this regulation the claimant's earnings and income which does not consist of earnings shall be calculated in accordance with Chapters III and V (employed earners and other income) respectively of this Part.",
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