Statutory Instruments
2016 No. 1021
Childcare
Payment Scheme
The Childcare Payments (Eligibility) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2016
Made
21st October 2016
Laid before Parliament
21st October 2016
Coming into force
14th November 2016
The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 9(2) and (3) and 69(2) of the Childcare Payments Act 2014( 1 ), make the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Childcare Payments (Eligibility) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2016 and come into force on 14th November 2016.
Amendments to the Childcare Payments (Eligibility) Regulations 2015
2. The Childcare Payments (Eligibility) Regulations 2015( 2 ) are amended as follows.
3. —(1) Regulation 9 is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (1)—
(a) after “if” insert “the person or any partner hold a National Insurance Number (“NINo”) and”;
(b) in sub-paragraph (b)(ii) for “relevant threshold” substitute “threshold specified in paragraph (5A)”.
(3) After paragraph (1) insert—
“ (1A) The requirement to hold a NINo in regulation 9(1) will not apply to a person’s partner who is resident and in paid work in another EEA state. ” .
(4) After paragraph (5) insert—
“ (5A) The threshold specified in this paragraph is the product of the calculation—
where
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M is the minimum weekly income based on the person’s age on the previous 6th April of the tax year in which the declaration of eligibility was made; and
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W is 52. ” .
(5) In paragraph (6) for “ M is the minimum weekly income” substitute “ M is the minimum weekly income based on the hourly rate applicable to the person at the date of the declaration of eligibility”.
4. In regulation 10(5) after “expected income” insert “during any period of 3 months beginning with the date of the declaration of eligibility”.
5. For regulation 11(1) substitute—
“ (1) A self-employed person does not have to meet the condition in regulation 9(1)(b) where the person makes the first declaration of eligibility within a start-up period. ”
Guy Opperman
David Evennett
Two of the Lords Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Treasury
21st October 2016
S.I. 2015/448 , to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.