2.—(1) Regulation 9 of the Social Security Benefit (Computation of Earnings) Regulations 1996(1) (earnings of employed earners) is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (3)(b), for “claimant’s participation in a service user group” substitute “claimant participating as a service user”.
(3) After paragraph (3) insert—
“(3A) The reference in paragraph (3)(b) to a claimant participating as a service user is to—
(a)a person who is being consulted by or on behalf of—
(i)a body which has a statutory duty to provide services in the field of health, social care or social housing; or
(ii)a body which conducts research or undertakes monitoring for the purpose of planning or improving such services,
in their capacity as a user, potential user, carer of a user or person otherwise affected by the provision of those services;
(b)a person who is being consulted by or on behalf of—
(i)the Secretary of State in relation to any of his functions in the field of social security or child support or under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973(2); or
(ii)a body which conducts research or undertakes monitoring for the purpose of planning or improving such functions,
in their capacity as a person affected or potentially affected by the exercise of those functions or the carer of such a person; or
(c)the carer of a person consulted under sub-paragraphs (a) or (b).”.
(4) In paragraph (4), omit the definition of “service user group”.
S.I. 1996/2745; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2009/2678, 2010/671.
1973 c.50. Section 2 was substituted by section 25(1) of the Employment Act 1988 (c.19). It was amended by section 29(4) of, and Schedule 7 to, the Employment Act 1989 (c.38) and, in relation to the making of arrangements by the Secretary of State in relation to Scotland, by section 47(1) of the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Act 1993 (c.19).