The Council Tax Reduction Schemes and Prescribed Requirements (Wales) Regulations 2013 No. 3029 (W. 301)

SCHEDULE 6 Determining eligibility for a reduction under an authority’s scheme, amount of reduction and calculation of income and capital: persons who are not pensioners

PART 4 Income and capital for the purposes of calculating eligibility for a reduction under an authority’s scheme and amount of reduction

CHAPTER 3 Income: persons who are not pensioners

Average weekly earnings of self-employed earners: persons who are not pensioners

11.—(1) Where the income of an applicant who is not a pensioner consists of earnings from employment as a self-employed earner that applicant’s average weekly earnings must be estimated by reference to that applicant’s earnings from that employment over such period as is appropriate in order that that applicant’s average weekly earnings may be estimated accurately but the length of the period must not in any case exceed 52 weeks.

(2) For the purposes of this paragraph the applicant’s earnings must be calculated in accordance with paragraphs 16, 24 and 25 (earnings and net profit of self-employed earners).