This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I. 2003 No. 1945 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
Statutory Instruments
2003 No. 2107
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance (Administration) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2003
Made
12th August 2003
Laid before Parliament
13th August 2003
Coming into force
3rd September 2003
The Commissioners of Inland Revenue, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 5(1)(a) and (2)(a) and (g) and 189 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992( 1 ), sections 5(1)(a) and (2)(a) and (g) and 165 of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992( 2 ) and section 50(1) and (2)(b) and (d) of the Tax Credits Act 2002( 3 ), hereby make the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance (Administration) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 3rd September 2003.
2. The Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance (Administration) Regulations 2003( 4 ) are amended as follows.
3. —(1) Renumber regulation 6 as paragraph (1) of that regulation.
(2) After paragraph (1) so formed add—
“ (2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply where—
(a) a person has been awarded child benefit or guardian’s allowance while he was present and residing in Great Britain, or Northern Ireland;
(b) at a time when payment of the award has not been suspended or terminated (under regulations 18 to 20 of the Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2003 or otherwise), he takes up residence in Northern Ireland, or Great Britain as the case may be (“the new country of residence”); and
(c) a new claim for that benefit or allowance is made in the new country of residence, for a period commencing on the later of—
(i) the date of the change of residence referred to in sub-paragraph (b), or
(ii) the date on which, apart from satisfying the conditions for making the claim, the person became entitled to the benefit or allowance under the legislation of the new country of residence. ” .
Nick Montagu
Helen Ghosh
Two of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue
12th August 2003
1992 c. 5 ; section 189 was relevantly amended by paragraph 57 of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) Act 1999 (c. 2) , by virtue of S.I. 1999/527 .
1992 c. 8 ; section 165 was relevantly amended by paragraph 49(2) of Schedule 3 to S.I. 1999/671 .