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[F14A.—(1) For the purposes of this Part, subject to paragraph (4), a person (“P”) is to be treated as responsible for a child if paragraph (2) or (3) applies.
(2) This paragraph applies if—
(a)P is receiving child benefit in respect of the child, unless P is a child in respect of whom another person is receiving child benefit; or
(b)no one is receiving child benefit in respect of the child but the child usually lives with P.
(3) This paragraph applies where P is receiving child benefit in respect of a child who is in receipt of child benefit in respect of another child in which case P is to be treated as responsible for both children.
(4) P is not to be treated as responsible for a child if the child is—
(a)being looked after by a local authority within the meaning of section 22 of the Children Act 1989, or section 93 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995, unless the child usually lives with P; or
(b)detained in custody pending trial or sentence upon conviction or under a sentence imposed by a court.]
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 4A inserted (24.1.2011) by Social Fund Maternity Grant Amendment Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/100), regs. 1(1), 2(2)
[F25.—(1) Subject to [F3regulations 5A and 6], a payment of £500 to meet maternity expenses (referred to in these Regulations as a “Sure Start Maternity Grant”) shall be made in respect of a child or still-born child where the following conditions are satisfied.
(2) The first condition is that the claimant or the claimant’s partner has, in respect of the date of the claim for a Sure Start Maternity Grant, been awarded—
(a)income support;
(b)state pension credit;
(c)an income-based jobseeker’s allowance;
(d)working tax credit where the disability element or the severe disability element of working tax credit as specified in regulation 20(1)(b) and (f) of the Working Tax Credit (Entitlement and Maximum Rate) Regulations 2002 is included in the award;
(e) child tax credit [F4which includes an individual element or a disability element referred to in section 9(3) of the Tax Credits Act 2002]; F5 ...
(f)an income-related employment and support allowance; [F6or
(g)universal credit.]
(3) The second condition is that—
(a)the claimant or, if the claimant is a member of a family, one of the family is pregnant or has given birth to a child or a still-born child;
[F7(b)the child’s parents are not partners at the date of the claim and the claimant—
(i)is the parent (but not the mother) of the child (who must not exceed the age of twelve months at the date of the claim), or is responsible for that parent, and
(ii)is responsible for the child;]
(c)the claimant or the claimant’s partner—
(i)has been granted a qualifying order in respect of a child who does not exceed the age of twelve months at the date of the claim, and
(ii)is responsible for the child;
(d)the claimant or the claimant’s partner—
(i)has been appointed the guardian of a child who does not exceed the age of twelve months at the date of the claim, and
(ii)is responsible for the child;
(e)a child who does not exceed the age of twelve months at the date of the claim has been placed for adoption with the claimant or the claimant’s partner by an adoption agency and the claimant or the claimant’s partner is responsible for the child; or
(f)the claimant or the claimant’s partner has adopted a child who does not exceed the age of twelve months at the date of the claim and that adoption falls within section 66(1)(c) to (e) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (meaning of adoption).
(4) The third condition is that the claimant or the claimant’s partner has received advice from a health professional—
(a)on health and welfare matters relating to the child (but this requirement does not apply where the claim is made after the birth of a still-born child); and
(b)where the claim is made before the child is born, on health and welfare matters relating to maternal health.
(5) The fourth condition is that the claim is made within the prescribed time for claiming a Sure Start Maternity Grant.]
Textual Amendments
F2 Reg. 5 substituted (13.12.2010) by Social Fund Maternity Grant Amendment Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2760), regs. 1, 2(5)
F3Words in reg. 5(1) substituted (24.1.2011) by Social Fund Maternity Grant Amendment Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/100), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(a) (with reg. 3)
F4Words in reg. 5(2)(e) substituted (6.4.2017) by The Social Fund (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/271), regs. 1(2), 3(3)
F5 Word in reg. 5(2) omitted (1.4.2013) by virtue of The Social Fund (Maternity and Funeral Expenses) Amendment Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/247), regs. 1(2), 2(4)(a)
F6 Reg. 5(2)(g) added (1.4.2013) by The Social Fund (Maternity and Funeral Expenses) Amendment Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/247), regs. 1(2), 2(4)(b)
F7Reg. 5(3)(b) substituted (24.1.2011) by Social Fund Maternity Grant Amendment Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/100), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(b)
[F85A.—(1) In this regulation—
(a)“C” means the child or still-born child in respect of whom a Sure Start Maternity Grant is claimed; and
(b)“existing member of the family” has the meaning given in paragraph (2) or, as the case may be, (3).
(2) Where a parent of C (“P”) is under the age of 20 and a member of the claimant’s family, “existing member of the family” means any member of the claimant’s family who is also a child of P, apart from C or any other child born as a result of the same pregnancy as C.
(3) In any other case, “existing member of the family” means any member of the claimant’s family apart from—
(a)C;
(b)any other child born as a result of the same pregnancy as C;
(c)any child whose parent is under the age of 20 and a member of the claimant’s family.
(4) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, a Sure Start Maternity Grant shall not be awarded if, at the date of claim, any existing member of the family is under the age of 16.
(5) Where C is one of two or more children—
(a)born or still-born as a result of the same pregnancy, or
(b)(if the claim is made before the confinement in a case where regulation 5(3)(a) applies) who are expected to be born as a result of the same pregnancy,
(c)the number of Sure Start Maternity Grants to be awarded is to be determined in accordance with paragraphs (6) and (7).
(6) Where at the date of claim no existing member of the family is under the age of 16 a Sure Start Maternity Grant is to be awarded in respect of each of the children mentioned in paragraph (5).
(7) Where at the date of claim any existing member of the family is under the age of 16 then—
(a)where each of those existing members of the family under the age of 16 was born as a result of separate pregnancies, a Sure Start Maternity Grant is to be awarded for all but one of the children mentioned in paragraph (5); and
(b)where two or more of those existing members of the family under the age of 16 were born as a result of a single pregnancy, the number of Sure Start Maternity Grants to be awarded in respect of the children mentioned in paragraph (5) is the number of children mentioned in paragraph (5) minus the maximum number of existing members of the family born as a result of a single pregnancy.]
Textual Amendments
F8Reg. 5A substituted (13.8.2012) by The Social Fund Maternity Grant Amendment Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1814), regs. 1(2), 2 (with reg. 3)
6.—(1) Where the claimant or the claimant's partner is a person affected by a trade dispute, a Sure Start Maternity Grant shall be made only if—
(a)in the case where the claimant or the claimant's partner is in receipt of income support or income-based jobseeker's allowance, the trade dispute has, at the date of the claim for that payment, continued for not less than six weeks; or
(b)in the case where the claimant or the claimant's partner is in receipt of—
(i)working tax credit where the disability element or the severe disability element of working tax credit as specified in regulation 20(1)(b) and (f) of the Working Tax Credit (Entitlement and Maximum Rate) Regulations 2002 is included in the award, or
(ii)child tax credit [F9which includes an individual element or a disability element referred to in section 9(3) of the Tax Credits Act 2002],
the “relevant claim” was made before the beginning of the trade dispute.
(2) In paragraph (1)(b), the relevant claim means the claim in respect of which a tax credit of the type referred to in head (i) or (ii) of that sub-paragraph was awarded.
Textual Amendments
F9Words in reg. 6(1)(b)(ii) substituted (6.4.2017) by The Social Fund (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/271), regs. 1(2), 3(3)
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