The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements) (England) Regulations 2012

Earnings of self-employers earners

21.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), “earnings”, in the case of employment as a self-employed earner, means the gross income of the employment.

(2) “Earnings” in the case of employment as a self-employed earner does not include—

(a) where an applicant occupies a dwelling as his home and he provides in that dwelling board and lodging accommodation for which payment is made, those payments;

(b) any payment made by a local authority to an applicant—

(i) with whom a person is accommodated by virtue of arrangements made under sections 22C or 23(2)(a) of the Children Act 1989(1) or, as the case may be, section 26(1) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995(2); or

(ii) with whom a local authority fosters a child under the Looked After Children (Scotland) Regulations 2009(3) or who is a kinship carer under those Regulations;

(c) any payment made by a voluntary organisation in accordance with section 59(1)(a) of the Children Act 1989(4);

(d) any payment made to the applicant or his partner for a person (“the person concerned”) who is not normally a member of the applicant’s household but is temporarily in his care, by—

(i) a local authority but excluding payments of housing benefit made in respect of the person concerned;

(ii) a voluntary organisation;

(iii) the person concerned pursuant to section 26(3A) of the National Assistance Act 1948(5);

(iv) the National Health Service Commissioning Board or a clinical commissioning group established under section 14D of the National Health Service Act 2006(6); or

(v) a Local Health Board established by an order made under section 11 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006(7);

(e) any sports award.

(1)

1989 c. 41; section 23 was substituted by sections 22A to 22F by section 8(1) of the Children and Young Persons Act 2008 (c. 23). Section 22C is in force in England but is not yet in force in Wales.

(2)

1995 c. 36; section 26 was amended by paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 4).

(3)

S.I. 2009/20; amendments to these Regulations have been made by S.I. 2009/290.

(4)

Section 59(1)(a) was amended by section 49 of the Children Act 2004 (c. 31) and paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the Children and Young Persons Act 2008.

(5)

1948 c. 29; section 26(3A) was inserted by section 42(4) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19).

(6)

2006 c. 41; the Commissioning Board is established under section 1H of the National Health Service Act 2006. Section 1H was inserted by section 9 and section 14D inserted by section 25 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7).

(7)

2006 c. 42.