{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-computation-of-earnings-regulations-1996/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-computation-of-earnings-regulations-1996/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2745",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Benefit (Computation of Earnings) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-computation-of-earnings-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Calculation of earnings",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of Parts II to V (other than those of Schedule 8) of the Contributions and Benefits Act and of any regulations made thereunder which relate to benefit under those Parts of that Act or regulations, the earnings of a claimant shall be calculated by determining in accordance with these Regulations the weekly amount of his earnings.\n(2) The amount of a claimant’s earnings for any period shall be the whole of those earnings (including any earnings which he is treated as possessing under regulation 4 (notional earnings)) except in so far as regulations 10 and 13 provide that certain sums shall be disregarded or deducted as appropriate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Part XIIA was inserted by sections 5 and 6(1) of the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Act 1994 (c.18)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2745/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:33:05.829440+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."
}