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Regulation 16 Earnings level for the purpose of unemployability supplement under section 58 of the ActF1

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

For the purposes of section 58(3) (earnings level that does not disqualify for unemployability supplement) the prescribed amount of earnings in a year is determined as follows–

(a)

multiply the National Minimum Wage by 16;

(b)

where the amount determined by the calculation in sub-paragraph (a) would, but for this sub-paragraph, include an amount of–

(i)

less than 50p, the amount determined under sub-paragraph (a) shall be rounded up to the nearest 50p, or

(ii)

less than £1 but more than 50p, the amount determined under sub-paragraph (a) shall be rounded up to the nearest £1; and

(c)

multiply the amount resulting from sub-paragraph (a) or (b) by 52.

(2)

In this regulation “National Minimum Wage” means the rate of the national minimum wage specified in regulation 11 of the National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (rate of the national minimum wage).

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Reg. 16 substituted (11.4.2011) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/674), regs. 1(4), 2

Notes on Chapter

Textual amendments

F1

Words in regs. 12-16 heading omitted (6.4.1983) by virtue of The Social Security (Abolition of Injury Benefit) (Consequential) Regulations 1983 (S.I. 1983/186), regs. 1(1), 13(3)