The Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987

Earnings of self-employed earner

37.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), “earnings”, in the case of employment as a self-employed earner, means the gross receipts of the employment and shall include any allowance payable pursuant to arrangements made by the Department of Economic Development(1) under section 1(1) of the Employment and Training Act (Northern Ireland) 1950(2) or any equivalent allowance payable under Republic of Ireland legislation to the claimant for the purpose of-assisting him in carrying on his business.

(2) Earnings shall not include, where a claimant is employed in providing board and lodging accommodation for which a charge is payable, any payment by way of such a charge except where the claimant is a seasonal worker to whom regulation 43 (notional earnings of seasonal workers) applies and the payment is due during the period of his normal employment.

(1)

See S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1964 No. 205, Article 3 for change in style of Ministry of Labour and National Insurance to Ministry of Health and Social Services; S.R. & O, (N.I.) 1973 No. 504, Article 6 for transfer of functions from Ministry of Health and Social Services to Department of Manpower Services and S.I. 1982/846 (N.l. 11), Article 3 for renaming the Department of Manpower Services the Department of Economic Development

(2)

1950 c. 29 (N.I.)