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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-computation-of-earnings-amendment-northern-ireland-regulations-2002/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2925",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Benefit (Computation of Earnings) (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-computation-of-earnings-amendment-northern-ireland-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "text": "(1) Amend the Social Security Benefit (Computation of Earnings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 as follows.\n(2) In regulation 2 omit the definition in paragraph (1) of “maternity leave”.\n(3) In regulation 9—\n(a) for sub-paragraph (j) of paragraph (1) substitute—\n“(j) any remuneration paid by or on behalf of an employer to the claimant in respect of a period throughout which the claimant is—\n(i) on maternity leave;\n(ii) on paternity leave;\n(iii) on adoption leave; or\n(iv) absent from work because he is ill.”.\n(b) at the appropriate points in the alphabetical list in paragraph (4) insert the following definitions—\n““adoption leave” means a period of absence from work on ordinary or additional adoption leave under Article 107A or 107B of the Employment Rights Order;;”\n““maternity leave” means a period during which a woman is absent from work because she is pregnant or has given birth to a child, and at the end of which she has a right to return to work either under the terms of her contract of employment or under Part IX of the Employment Rights Order;and”\n““paternity leave” means a period of absence from work on leave under Article 112A or 112B of the Employment Rights Order.”.\n(4) In the provisions mentioned in paragraph (5) for “invalid care allowance” substitute “carer’s allowance”.\n(5) The provisions are —\n(a) regulation 7(a)(i) (date on which earnings are treated as paid);\n(b) regulation 10(3) (calculation of net earnings of employed earners);\n(c) regulation 13(3)(calculation of net earnings of self-employed earners); and\n(d) the heading to, and paragraph 1(a) of, Schedule 3 (care charges to be deducted in the calculation of earnings for entitlement to invalid care allowance).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R.1996 No. 520: there are amendments which are not relevant for present purposes."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/1919 (N.I. 16) .Articles 107A and 107B were inserted by Article 3 of the Employment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/2836 (N.I. 2))."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Part IX was substituted by Part I of Schedule 4 to the Employment Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/2790 (N.I. 9))."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Articles 112A and 112B were inserted by Article 4 of the Employment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Invalid care allowance is renamed carer’s allowance by virtue of the Deregulation (Carer’s Allowance) Order (Northern Ireland) 2002 (S.R. 2002 No. 321)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2925/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:39:17.224295+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."
}