# The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2014, Regulation 4: Amendment of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2013


(1) The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2013 are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 49(5) (victims of domestic violence) 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;
(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;
(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.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/597/regulation/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2014/regulation-4
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