PART VIII INCOME AND CAPITAL
Chapter IV Self-Employed Earners
Earnings of self-employed earners100
1
Subject to paragraph (2), “earnings", in the case of employment as a self-employed earner, means the gross receipts of the employment and shall include any allowance paid under any scheme referred to in regulation 19(1)(r) (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as actively seeking employment: schemes for assisting persons to become self-employed earners) to the claimant for the purpose of assisting him in carrying on his business.
2
“Earnings" shall not include–
a
where a claimant is involved in providing board and lodging accommodation for which a charge is payable, any payment by way of such a charge;
b
any payment to which paragraph 27 or 28 of Schedule 7 refers (payments in respect of a person accommodated with the claimant under an arrangement made by a local authority or voluntary organisation, and payments made to the claimant by a health authority, local authority or voluntary organisation in respect of persons temporarily in the claimant’s care).
F1c
any sports award.