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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-tax-employments-regulations-1993/regulation-81",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/744",
  "legislation_title": "The Income Tax (Employments) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-tax-employments-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/81",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "81",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part VII",
  "text": "In this Part of these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires—\n“benefit” means a payment in accordance with the Social Security Act 1986 or the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 or, in Northern Ireland, the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 or the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, which includes taxable benefit;\n“claim” means a claim to a benefit;\n“claimant” means a person who has made a claim and who is not an employed claimant;\n“employed claimant” means an employed earner who has made a claim;\n“taxable benefit” means income chargeable under section 617(1) of the Taxes Act; and\n“working sheet” means any form of record on or in which the matters required by this Part of these Regulations are to be kept.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1986 c. 50."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1888 (N.I.18)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 617(1) was amended by paragraph 18 of Schedule 2 to the Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance Act 1991 (c. 18), paragraph 93 of Schedule 2 to the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 and paragraph 33 of Schedule 2 to the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 9) and by S.I. 1991/2874."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/853",
      "affecting_title": "The Income Tax (Employments) (Incapacity Benefit) Regulations 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/853",
      "affecting_title": "The Income Tax (Employments) (Incapacity Benefit) Regulations 1995"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/744/regulation/81",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:00:51.303653+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}