PART VE+W+SINCOME AND CAPITAL

CHAPTER IIIE+W+Semployed earners

Calculation of net earnings of employed earnersE+W+S

36.—(1) For the purposes of regulation 29 (calculation of earnings of employed earners) the earnings of a claimant derived from employment as an employed earner to be taken into account shall, subject to paragraph (2), be his net earnings.

(2) There shall be disregarded from a claimant's net earnings, any sum, where applicable, specified in paragraphs 1 to 13 [F1or 15A] of Schedule 8.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1) net earnings shall be calculated by taking into account the gross earnings of the claimant from that employment less—

(a)any amount deducted from those earnings by way of—

(i)income tax;

(ii)primary Class 1 contributions under the Social Security ActF2; and

(b)one-half of any sum paid by the claimant [F3in respect of a pay period] by way of a contribution towards an occupational or personal pension scheme.

Textual Amendments

F3Words in reg. 36(3)(b) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.5) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2139), regs. 1(1)(a), 26

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 36 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1