The Social Security Benefit (Computation of Earnings) Amendment Regulations 1987

• Citation: S.I. 1987/606
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security Benefit (Computation of Earnings) Amendment Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 28th April 1987.

Section 2 Amendment of the Social Security Benefit (Computation of Earnings) Regulations 1978

After paragraph (2) of regulation 3 of the Social Security Benefit (Computation of Earnings) Regulations 1978 there shall be inserted the following paragraphs–

(3) For the purposes of regulation 7(1)(g)(i) of the Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1983 (day not to be treated as a day of unemployment if earnings for that day exceed £2) there shall be disregarded any payment made to a person as a member of a reserve force–

(a) by way of annual bounty; or

(b) in respect of his attendance at an authorised drill night if that night is not later than the sixteenth such night attended by him falling within the bounty year.

(4) In paragraph (3) above–

“authorised” means authorised by the commanding officer of the reserve force unit of which the person concerned is a member;

“bounty year” means the 12 months beginning with the 1st April in any year;

“drill night” means a period during which members of the reserve force unit of which the person concerned is a member attend for training and in respect of which any payment made does not exceed one quarter of a day’s pay; and

“reserve force” means any territorial or reserve force mentioned in Part I of Schedule 3 to the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 1979 .