Citation and interpretation

1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Childcare Payments Act 2014 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2016.

(2) In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Childcare Payments Act 2014;

“the childcare payments scheme” means the scheme created by the Act, which provides for HMRC to make top-up payments, to eligible persons, to be used towards the cost of qualifying childcare for qualifying children;

“the trial” means a test of all the systems required to deliver the childcare payments scheme, which the Treasury considers necessary and which will run for six months from 14th November 2016 to 15th May 2017 and will involve a range of parents and others responsible for children.

Commencement of provisions of the Act for the purposes of the trial

2. The day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions of the Act, for the purposes of the trial, is 14th November 2016—

(a) sections 1 and 2;

(b) sections 4 to 11;

(c) sections 13 to 25;

(d) section 30;

(e) sections 32 to 38;

(f) sections 40 to 42;

(g) sections 44 to 62;

(h) sections 66 and 67; and

(i) section 73(2) to (4).

Commencement and adaptation of section 3 of the Act for the purposes of the trial

3. For the purposes of the trial, the day appointed for the coming into force of section 3 of the Act is 14th November 2016 and that section is adapted as follows—

(a) in subsections (1)(b), (2), (3) and (4) for “6 to 13” substitute “6 to 11 and 13”;

(b) in subsection (1)(b) for “9 to 13” substitute “9 to 11 and 13”.