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PART V
Amendments to Existing Schemes
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Lone parent's allowance (calculation of means).
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15.—(1) Paragraph (4) of Rule 1 of Part II of the Third Schedule to the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for subparagraph (j) of the following subparagraphs:
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“(j) in the case of a person who is not a blind person or a lone parent, and who has a qualified child who normally resides with him, his earnings (including wages and profit from any form of self-employment), except and insofar as the annual amount of such earnings is calculated to exceed £104 for each such child of whom account has not already been taken in accordance with this paragraph in calculating the means of another person,
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(jj) in the case of a lone parent, such amount, as may be prescribed, of his earnings (including wages and profit from any form of self-employment), together with one-half of the amount of his earnings, if any, in excess of the amount so prescribed,”.
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(2) In the case of a person who is in receipt of a lone parent's allowance on the 20th day of July, 1994, the provisions of this section shall not have the effect of reducing the rate of lone parent's allowance payable below that payable on the said date.
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(3) This section shall come into operation on the 21st day of July, 1994.
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