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48.—(1) Any F1... bounty derived from employment to which paragraph 7 of Schedule 8 applies [F2and paid at intervals of at least one year] shall be treated as capital.
(2) Except in the case of an amount to which section 23(5) (a) (ii) of the Act (refund of tax in trade disputes cases) [F3or regulation 41(4) (capital treated as income)] applies, any amount by way of a refund of income tax deducted from profits or emoluments chargeable to income tax under Schedule D or E shall be treated as capital.
(3) Any holiday pay which is not earnings under regulation 35(1) (d) (earnings of employed earners) shall be treated as capital.
(4) Except any income derived from capital disregarded under paragraph 1, 2, 4, 6, [F412 or 25 to 28] of Schedule 10, any income derived from capital shall be treated as capital but only from the date it is normally due to be credited to the claimant's account.
(5) Subject to paragraph (6), in the case of employment as an employed earner, any advance of earnings or any loan made by the claimant's employer shall be treated as capital.
[F5(6) Paragraph (5) shall not apply to a person to whom section 23 of the Act (trade disputes) applies or in respect of whom section 20(3) of the Act (conditions of entitlement to income support) has effect as modified by section 23A(b) (effect of return to work).]
(7) Any payment under section 30 of the Prison Act 1952 F6 (payments for discharged prisoners) or allowance under section 17 of the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1952 F7 (allowances to prisoners on discharge) shall be treated as capital.
[F8(8) Any payment made by a local authority, which represents arrears of payments under—
(a)paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 (power of a local authority to make contributions to a person with whom a child lives as a result of a residence order); or
(b)section 34(6) or as the case may be, section 50 of the Children Act 1975 (payments towards maintenance for children),
shall be treated as capital.
(8A) Any payment made by an authority, as defined in Article 2 of the Children Order which represents arrears of payments under Article 15 of, and paragraph 17 of Schedule 1 to, that Order (contribution by an authority to child’s maintenance), shall be treated as capital.]
[F9(9) Any charitable or voluntary payment which is not made or not due to be made at regular intervals, other than one to which paragraph (10) applies, shall be treated as capital.]
[F9(10) This paragraph applies to a payment—
(a)which is made to a person to whom section 23 of the Act (trade disputes) applies or in respect of whom section 20(3) of the Act (conditions of entitlement to income support) has effect as modified by section 23A(b) of the Act (effect of return to work) or to a member of the family of such a person;
(b)to which regulation 44(2) (modification in respect of children and young persons) applies; or
(c)which is made under the Macfarlane Trust[F10, the Macfarlane (Special Payments) Trust][F11, the Macfarlane (Special Payments) (No. 2) Trust][F12, the Fund[F13, the Eileen Trust]] or [F14the Independent Living Funds].]
[F15(11) Any compensation within the meaning of regulation 35(3) (earnings of employed earners) which is made in respect of employment which is not part-time employment within the meaning of that regulation, to the extent that it is not earnings by virtue of regulation 35(1)(i)(i) shall be treated as capital.]
[F16(12) Any arrears of subsistence allowance which are paid to a claimant as a lump sum shall be treated as capital.]
Textual Amendments
F1Word in reg. 48(1) omitted (12.9.1988) by virtue of The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1445), regs. 1(1)(b), 11(a)
F2Words in reg. 48(1) inserted (12.9.1988) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1445), regs. 1(1)(b), 11(a)
F3Words in reg. 48(2) inserted (12.9.1988) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1445), regs. 1(1)(b), 11(b)
F4Words in reg. 48(4) substituted (12.12.1988) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 5 Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/2022), regs. 1(1)(a), 11(a)
F5Reg. 48(6) substituted (11.4.1988) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/663), regs. 1(1), 21
F61952 c. 52; section 30 was substituted by section 66 (3) of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 (c. 80).
F8Reg. 48(8)(8A) substituted for reg. 48(8) (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/563), regs. 1(2), 14(1)
F9Reg. 48(9)(10) added (12.12.1988) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 5 Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/2022), regs. 1(1)(a), 11(b)
F10Words in reg. 48(10)(c) inserted (31.1.1990) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes Amendment Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/127), regs. 1(1), 3(3)(b)
F11Words in reg. 48(10)(c) inserted (11.5.1991) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes and Social Security (Recoupment) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/1175), regs. 1(1), 5(4)
F12Words in reg. 48(10)(c) inserted (7.5.1992) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes and Social Security (Recoupment) Amendment Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/1101), regs. 1(1), 6(4)
F13Words in reg. 48(10)(c) inserted (14.5.1993) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes and Social Security (Recoupment) Amendment Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/1249), regs. 1(1)(a), 4(3)(b)
F14Words in reg. 48(10)(c) substituted (22.4.1993) by The Social Security Benefits (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/963), regs. 1, 2(3)(4)
F15Reg. 48(11) added (9.10.1989) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1323), regs. 1(1)(b), 15
F16Reg. 48(12) added (3.4.2000) by The Social Security Amendment (Employment Zones) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/724), regs. 1(1), 3(2)(c)
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 48 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1
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