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The Child Support (Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases) Regulations 1992

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Version Superseded: 13/01/1997

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Point in time view as at 22/01/1996.

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There are currently no known outstanding effects for the The Child Support (Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases) Regulations 1992, Paragraph 3. Help about Changes to Legislation

3.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) and to paragraph 4, “earnings" in the case of employment as a self-employed earner means the gross receipts of the employment including, where an allowance in the form of periodic payments is paid under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 M1 or section 2 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990 M2 in respect of the relevant week for the purpose of assisting him in carrying on his business, the total of those payments made during the period by reference to which his earnings are determined under paragraph 5.

(2) Earnings shall not include—

(a)any allowance paid under either of those sections in respect of any part of the period by reference to which his earnings are determined under paragraph 5 if no part of that allowance is paid in respect of the relevant week;

(b)any income consisting of payments received for the provision of board and lodging accommodation unless such payments form the largest element of the recipient’s income.

(3) [F1Subject to sub-paragraph (7),] there shall be deducted from the gross receipts referred to in sub-paragraph (1)—

(a)[F2except in a case to which paragraph 4 applies,] any expenses which are reasonably incurred and are wholly and exclusively defrayed for the purposes of the earner’s business in the period by reference to which his earnings are determined under paragraph 5(1) or, where paragraph 5(2) applies, any such expenses relevant to the period there mentioned (whether or not defrayed in that period);

(b)[F3except in a case to which paragraph 4 [F4or 5(2)] applies,] any value added tax paid in the period by reference to which earnings are determined in excess of value added tax received in that period;

(c)any amount in respect of income tax determined in accordance with sub-paragraph (5);

(d)any amount in respect of National Insurance contributions determined in accordance with sub-paragraph (6);

(e)one half of any premium paid in respect of a retirement annuity contract or a personal pension scheme[F5, or, where that scheme is intended partly to provide a capital sum to discharge a mortgage or charge secured upon the parent’s home, 37.5 per centum of the contributions payable].

(4) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (3)(a)—

(a)such expenses include—

(i)repayment of capital on any loan used for the replacement, in the course of business, of equipment or machinery, or the repair of an existing business asset except to the extent that any sum is payable under an insurance policy for its repair;

(ii)any income expended in the repair of an existing business asset except to the extent that any sum is payable under an insurance policy for its repair;

(iii)any payment of interest on a loan taken out for the purposes of the business;

(b)such expenses do not include—

(i)repayment of capital on any other loan taken out for the purposes of the business;

(ii)any capital expenditure;

(iii)the depreciation of any capital asset;

(iv)any sum employed, or intended to be employed, in the setting up or expansion of the business;

(v)any loss incurred before the beginning of the period by reference to which earnings are determined;

(vi)any expenses incurred in providing business entertainment;

(vii)any loss incurred in any other employment in which he is engaged as a self-employed earner.

[F6(5) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (3)(c), the amount of income tax to be allowed against earning shall be calculated—

(a)where the earnings are determined over a period of 12 months on the basis of chargeable earnings and as if those earnings, less any personal allowance applicable to the earner under Chapter 1 of Part VII of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (Personal Relief), were assessable to income tax at the rates of tax applicable at the effective date; or

(b)where the earnings are determined over a period of less than 12 months on the basis of chargeable earnings and as if those earnings, less a proportionate part of any personal allowance applicable to the earner under Chapter 1 of Part VII of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (Personal Relief), were assessable to income tax at the rates of tax applicable at the effective date, but the amount of the earnings to which each tax rate applies shall be determined on the basis that the ratio of that amount to the full amount of chargeable earnings to which each tax rate applies is the same as the ratio of the proportionate part of the personal allowance to the full personal allowance.]

(6) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (3)(d), the amount to be deducted in respect of National Insurance contributions shall be the total of—

(a)the amount of Class 2 contributions (if any) payable under section 11(1) or, as the case may be, [F7(3)] of the Contributions and Benefits Act; and

(b)the amount of Class 4 contributions (if any) payable under section 15(2) of that Act,

at the rates applicable [F8to the chargeable earnings] at the effective date.

[F9(7) In the case of a self-employed earner whose employment is carried on in partnership or is that of a share fisherman within the meaning of the Social Security (Mariners’ Benefits) Regulations 1975, sub-paragraph (3) shall have effect as though it requires—

(a)a deduction from the earner’s estimated or, where appropriate, actual share of the gross receipts of the partnership or fishing boat, of his share of the sums likely to be deducted or, where appropriate, deducted from those gross receipts under heads (a) and (b) of that sub-paragraph; and

(b)a deduction from the amount so calculated of the sums mentioned in heads (c) to (e) of that sub-paragraph.]

(8) [F10In sub-paragraphs (5) and (6) “chargeable earnings” means the gross receipts of the employment less any deductions mentioned in sub-paragraph (3)(a) and (b).]

Textual Amendments

F1Words in Sch. 1 Pt. I Ch. 2 para. 3(3) inserted (5.4.1993) by The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/913), regs. 1(1), 27(1)(a)

F2Words in Sch. 1 Pt. I Ch. 2 para. 3(3)(a) inserted (5.4.1993) by The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/913), regs. 1(1), 27(1)(b)

F3Words in Sch. 1 Pt. I Ch. 2 para. 3(3)(b) inserted (5.4.1993) by The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/913), regs. 1(1), 27(1)(b)

F8Words in Sch. 1 Pt. I Ch. 2 para. 3(6) inserted (5.4.1993) by The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/913), regs. 1(1), 27(3)

Marginal Citations

M11973 c.50; section 2 was amended by sections 9 and 11 of, and Schedule 2, Part II, paragraph 9 and Schedule 3, to the Employment and Training Act 1981 (c.57).

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