Welfare Reform Bill

52DA: Schedule 1, page 107, line 26, at end insert— ““( ) For the purposes of introducing Regulations under this section — (a) earnings shall not include any payment in respect of expenses wholly, exclusively and necessarily incurred in the performance of the duties of the employment. (b) notional income shall not apply in respect of any amount of income other than earnings, or earnings derived from employment as an employed earner, arising out of the claimant’s participation in a service user group; (c) ““service user group”” means a group of individuals that is consulted by or on behalf of— (i) a Health Board, Special Health Board or the Agency in consequence of a function under section 2B of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978; (ii) a landlord authority in consequence of a function under section 105 of the Housing Act 1985; (iii) a public authority in consequence of a function under section 49A of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995; (iv) a best value authority in consequence of a function under section 3 of the Local Government Act 1999; (v) a local authority landlord or registered social landlord in consequence of a function under section 53 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001; (vi) a relevant English body or a relevant Welsh body in consequence of a function under section 242 of the National Health Service Act 2006; (vii) a Local Health Board in consequence of a function under section 183 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006; (viii) the Commission or the Office of the Health Professions Adjudicator in consequence of a function under sections 4, 5 or 108 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008; (ix) the regulator or a registered provider in consequence of a function under sections 98, 193 or 196 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008; (x) the National Institute for Health Research and Department of Health commissioning programmes; (xi) the National Institute for Health infrastructure organisations including research networks, Research Design Services, Collaborations for Leadership and Applied Health Research and Care, University Research Institutes and groups and other higher education institutions, individual research studies, social care bodies, charities and other not for profit organisations; or (xii) a public or local authority in Great Britain in consequence of a function conferred under any other enactment for the purposes of monitoring and advising on a policy of that body or authority which affects or may affect persons in the group or monitoring or advising on services provided by that body or authority which are used (or may potentially be used) by those persons.””