Statutory Instruments
2015 No. 537
Childcare
Payment Scheme
The Childcare Payments Act 2014 (Amendment) Regulations 2015
Made
5th March 2015
Laid before Parliament
6th March 2015
Coming into force
1st June 2015
The Treasury make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 19(7) and 69(2) and (4)(b) of the Childcare Payments Act 2014( 1 ).
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Childcare Payments Act 2014 (Amendment) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 1st June 2015.
Increase in relevant maximum for disabled children
2. —(1) Section 19 of the Childcare Payments Act 2014 (payments into childcare accounts) is amended as follows.
(2) In subsection (5), for “is £2,000” substitute “is—
(a) in the case of a disabled child, £4,000, and
(b) in the case of any other child, £2,000.”.
(3) At the end insert—
“ (10) In subsection (5) “disabled child” is to be read in accordance with regulations made under section 14(1). ” ( 2 ).
Gavin Barwell
David Evennett
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
5th March 2015
Regulation 5 of the Childcare Payments (Eligibility) Regulations 2015 ( S.I. 2015/448 ) explains when a disabled child is a qualifying child for the purposes of the Act and gives the meaning of disabled child for those purposes.