Supplementary Benefits Act 1976

1 (1) In this Schedule—

• " available earnings ", in relation to an employee on any pay-day, means the earnings which remain payable to him on that pay-day after deduction by his employer of all amounts lawfully deductible by the employer otherwise than by virtue of a deduction notice ;

• " the claimant ", in relation to a notification of award under section 9(4) of this Act, means the person stated therein to have had an award of supplementary benefit made to him ;

• " deduction notice " has the meaning assigned by paragraph 2(1) of this Schedule ;

• " employment " means employment in remunerative full-time work, and related expressions shall be construed accordingly;

• " pay-day ", in relation to earnings paid to an employee, means an occasion on which they are paid ;

• " prescribed " means prescribed by the regulations ;

• " protected earnings ", in the case of any person, means his protected earnings for the purposes of Part II of this Schedule, as determined by the Commission in accordance with section 9(5) of this Act;

• " the regulations " means regulations made by the Secretary of State under section 14 of this Act;

• " repaid by the claimant " means paid by the claimant directly to the Secretary of State by way of repayment of supplementary benefit paid to the claimant on any award made to him during the period of fifteen days from the beginning of the relevant engagement (including any additional supplementary benefit paid to him on that award where the amount of the award is increased on an appeal or as a result of a review).

(2) For the purposes of Part II of this Schedule in its application to any sum which is recoverable from a person by virtue of subsection (2) of section 9 of this Act as having been paid to him by virtue of that subsection during the period of fifteen days from the beginning of an engagement falling within subsection (1) of that section, " the relevant engagement" means that engagement.

(3) The provisions of Part II of this Schedule relating to the recovery of supplementary benefit by deduction from earnings are framed in terms applicable to employees whose earnings are paid weekly ; but the Secretary of State may, by the regulations, provide that, in the case of employees whose earnings are paid otherwise, those provisions shall have effect with such adaptations as may be specified in the regulations.