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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Regular Employment) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 1st April 1990.
(2) In these Regulations, “the 1975 Act” means the Social Security Act 1975.
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(1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, “regular employment”, for the purposes of section 59B of the 1975 Act, means, in relation to any person and any week, gainful employment (whether or not under a contract of service) which the person undertakes for 10 hours or more in a week which forms part of a period of 5 or more consecutive weeks in which such employment is undertaken.
(2) For the purposes of section 59B of the 1975 Act, a person —
(a) if he is engaged in regular employment, shall be regarded as not having given up that employment, or
(b) if he is not so engaged, shall be regarded as having returned to regular employment, in any week falling within a period of 5 consecutive weeks during which the total number of hours gainfully employed, when averaged over the whole of that period, amounts to 10 or more for each week within that period.
(3) A person shall be regarded for those purposes as not having given up regular employment in any week in which he has one or more days of interruption of employment.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
Henley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Social Security
13th February 1990