PART IIMISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO [F1CARER'S ALLOWANCE]

Textual Amendments

Circumstances in which a person is or is not to be treated as gainfully employed

8.—(1) For the purposes of [F2section 70(1)(b) of the Contributions and Benefits Act] (condition of a person being entitled to [F3a carer’s allowance] for any day that he is not gainfully employed) a person shall not be treated as gainfully employed on any day in a week unless his earnings in the immediately preceding week have exceeded [F4£151] and, subject to paragraph (2) of this regulation, shall be treated as gainfully employed on every day in a week if his earnings in the immediately preceding week have exceeded [F4£151].

(2) There shall be disregarded for the purposes of paragraph (1) above a person's earnings—

(a)for any week which under paragraph (2) of regulation 4 of these regulations is treated as a week in which that person satisfies the requirements of paragraph (1) of that regulation; F5...

F6(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F7(c). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3) The Social Security Benefit (Computation of Earnings) Regulations 1974(1), as amended(2), except regulations 5 to 7 thereof, shall apply in relation to invalid care allowance as they apply in relation to invalidity pension.

Textual Amendments

(1)

(1974 III, p. 7017).

(2)

There is no amendment relevant for the purposes of this regulation.