The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

Calculation of earnings of self-employed earners N.I.

92.—(1) Except where paragraph (2) applies, where a claimant’s income consists of earnings from employment as a self-employed earner the weekly amount of the claimant’s earnings is to be determined by reference to the claimant’s average weekly earnings from that employment—

(a) over a period of one year; or

(b) where the claimant has recently become engaged in that employment or there has been a change which is likely to affect the normal pattern of business, over such other period as may, in any particular case, enable the weekly amount of the claimant’s earnings to be determined more accurately.

[F1 (2) Where the claimant’s earnings consist of any items to which paragraph (2A) applies those earnings shall be taken into account over a period equal to such number of weeks as is equal to the number obtained (and any fraction shall be treated as a corresponding fraction of a week) by dividing the earnings by the amount of employment and support allowance which would be payable had the payment not been made plus an amount equal to the total of the sums which would fall to be disregarded from the payment under Schedule 7 (earnings to be disregarded) as is appropriate in the claimant’s case.]

[F2 (2A) This paragraph applies to—

(a) royalties or other sums paid as a consideration for the use of, or the right to use, any copyright, design, patent or trade mark; or

(b) any payment in respect of any—

(i) book registered under the Public Lending Right Scheme 1982, or

(ii) work made under any international public lending right scheme that is analogous to the Public Lending Right Scheme 1982,

where the claimant is the first owner of the copyright, design, patent or trademark, or an original contributor to the book or work concerned.]

(3) For the purposes of this regulation the claimant’s earnings are to be calculated in accordance with Chapter 4.

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 92(2) substituted (6.4.2009) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009/92), regs. 1(1), 8(3)(a)

F2 Reg. 92(2A) inserted (6.4.2009 for specified purposes) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009/92), regs. 1(3), 8(3)(b)

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 92 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)