The Child Benefit (Residence and Persons Abroad) Amendment Regulations 1999

Amendment of the principal Regulations

2.  Subject to regulation 3 (saving), in regulation 2(2)(c) of the principal Regulations (child benefit to remain payable during a child’s absence abroad in specified cases)–

(a) in head (i) for the number “8” there shall be substituted the number “12”;

(b) for head (ii) there shall be substituted the following head–

“(ii) is a week, not falling within the period specified in sub-paragraph (c)(i) above, in which the child’s absence is by reason only of his receiving full-time education by attendance at a recognised educational establishment in another State which is a Contracting Party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992(1) as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993(2) or his being engaged in an educational exchange or visit made with the written approval of the recognised educational establishment which he normally attends;” .

(1)

Cm 2073 and OJ No L1, 3.1.94, p.3.

(2)

Cm 2183 and OJ No L1, 3.1.94, p.572.