Regulation 2 Meaning of “regular employment”F1
For the purposes of paragraph 13 of Schedule 7 to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992, “regular employment” means gainful employment—
(2)
For the purposes of section 59B of the 1975 Act, a person —
(a)
under a contract of service which requires a person to work for an average of 10 hours or more per week in any period of five consecutive weeks, there being disregarded for this purpose any week when the contract subsists during which he is absent from that employment in circumstances where such absence is permitted under the contract (for example in the case of sickness or taking leave); or
(b)
which a person undertakes for an average of 10 hours or more per week in any period of five consecutive weeks.