Amendment of regulation 4 of the Council Tax Benefit Regulations

16.  In regulation 4 of the Council Tax Benefit Regulations(1) (remunerative work)—

(a) in paragraph (2), at the beginning there shall be inserted the words “Subject to paragraph (2A),”; and

(b) after paragraph (2), there shall be inserted the following—

“(2A) Where, for the purposes of paragraph (2)(a), a person’s recognisable cycle of work at a school, other educational establishment or other place of employment is one year and includes periods of school holidays or similar vacations during which he does not work, those periods and any other periods not forming part of such holidays or vacations during which he is not required to work shall be disregarded in establishing the average hours for which he is engaged in work.”.

(1)

Regulation 4 was amended by S.I. 1993/2118.