Regulation 4 Amendment of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2013

(1)

The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2013^f1 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 49(5) (victims of domestic violence)^f2 for paragraph (a) of the definition of “registered social worker” substitute—

“(a)
the Health and Care Professions Council;”.

(3)

In regulation 51(4)(a) (general principles for calculating reduction periods), for “14” substitute “13”.

(4)

In regulation 52(b)(ii) to (vii) (low-level sanction), for “365” substitute “364”.

(5)

In regulation 80 (earnings of employed earners)—

(a)

in paragraph (1)(h) for “sections” substitute “section” and for “and” substitute “or”;

(b)

after paragraph (2)(f) insert—

“(g)
any bounty paid at intervals of at least one year and derived from employment as—

(i)
a part-time fire-fighter in a fire brigade maintained in pursuance of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004^f3;

(ii)
a part-time fire-fighter employed by a fire and rescue authority under that Act;

(iii)
a part-time fire-fighter employed by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service established under section 1A of the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005^f4;

(iv)
an auxiliary coastguard in respect of coast rescue activities;

(v)
a person engaged part-time in the manning or launching of a lifeboat;

(vi)
a member of any territorial or reserve force prescribed in Part 1 of Schedule 6 to the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001^f5.”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 2013/379.
f2: Regulation 49(5) was amended by S.I. 2013/1508.
f3: 2004 c.21.
f4: 2005 asp 5.
f5: S.I. 2001/1004.