3.—(1) In a case of earnings from any employment or employments to which sub-paragraph (2) applies, £20.
(2) This paragraph applies to employment—
(a)as a part-time fire-fighter employed by a fire and rescue authority constituted by a scheme under section 2 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004(1) or a scheme to which section 4 of that Act applies;
(b)a part-time fire-fighter employed by a fire and rescue authority (as defined in section 1 of the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005(2)) or a joint fire and rescue board constituted by an amalgamation scheme made under section 2(1) of that Act;
(c)as an auxiliary coastguard in respect of coast rescue activities;
(d)in the manning or launching of a lifeboat if the employment is part-time;
(e)as a member of any territorial or reserve force prescribed in Part I of Schedule 6 to Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001(3).
(3) If—
(a)any of the earnings of the claimant or, if he has a partner, his partner, or both of them, are disregarded under sub-paragraph (1); and
(b)either of them has, or both of them have, other earnings,
so much of those other earnings as would not, in the aggregate with the earnings disregarded under that sub-paragraph, exceed £20.
2005 asp 5. paragraph 3(1)(c) applies in Scotland only– see footnote (a) above.
S.I. 2001/1004.