The Child Benefit (General) Regulations 2006

Circumstances in which person treated as not being in Northern Ireland U.K.

27.—(1) A person shall be treated as not being in Northern Ireland for the purposes of section 142(2) of SSCB(NI)A if he is not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom.

(2) A person who is in Northern Ireland as a result of his deportation, expulsion or other removal by compulsion of law from another country to Northern Ireland shall be treated as being ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom [F1 and paragraph (4) shall not apply].

(3) A person shall be treated as not being in Northern Ireland for the purposes of section 142(2) of SSCB(NI)A where he [F2 makes a claim for child benefit on or after 1st May 2004] [F3 and

(a) does not have a right to reside in the United Kingdom; or

(b) has a right to reside in the United Kingdom by virtue of—

(i) regulation 15A(1) of the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006, but only in a case where the right exists under that regulation because the person satisfies the criteria in regulation 15A(4A) of those Regulations; or

(ii) Article 20 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (in a case where the right to reside arises because a British citizen would otherwise be deprived of the genuine enjoyment of the substance of their rights as a European Union citizen).]

[F4 (4) Subject to paragraph (5), a person is to be treated as being in Northern Ireland for the purposes of section 142(2) of SSCB(NI)A only if that person has been living in the United Kingdom for 3 months ending on the first day of the week referred to in that section.

(5) Paragraph (4) does not apply where the person—

(a) most recently entered the United Kingdom before 1st July 2014;

(b) is a worker or a self-employed person in the United Kingdom for the purposes of Council Directive 2004/38/EC;

(c) retains the status of a worker or self-employed person in the United Kingdom pursuant to Article 7(3) of Council Directive 2004/38/EC;

(d) is treated as a worker in the United Kingdom pursuant to regulation 5 of the Accession of Croatia (Immigration and Worker Authorisation) Regulations 2013 (right of residence of a Croatian who is an “accession State national subject to worker authorisation”);

(e) is a family member of a person referred to in sub-paragraphs (b), (c), (d) or (i);

(f) is a person to whom regulation 28 applies (persons temporarily absent from Northern Ireland) and who returns to Northern Ireland within 52 weeks starting from the first day of the temporary absence;

(g) returns to the United Kingdom after a period abroad of less than 52 weeks where immediately before departing from the United Kingdom that person had been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom for a continuous period of 3 months;

(h) returns to Northern Ireland otherwise than as a worker or self-employed person after a period abroad and where, otherwise than for a period of up to 3 months ending on the day of returning, that person has paid either Class 1 or Class 2 contributions by virtue of regulation 114, 118, 146 or 147 of the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001 or pursuant to an Order in Council having effect under section 179 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992;

(i) is not a national of an EEA State and would be a worker or self-employed person in the United Kingdom for the purposes of Council Directive 2004/38/EC if that person were a national of an EEA State;

(j) is a refugee as defined in Article 1 of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28th July 1951, as extended by Article 1(2) of the Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees done at New York on 31st January 1967;

(k) has been granted leave, or is deemed to have been granted leave, outside the rules made under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971 where that leave is—

(i) granted by the Secretary of State with recourse to public funds, or

(ii) deemed to have been granted by virtue of regulation 3 of the Displaced Persons (Temporary Protection) Regulations 2005;

(l) has been granted leave to remain in the United Kingdom by the Secretary of State pending an application for indefinite leave to remain as a victim of domestic violence;

(m) has been granted humanitarian protection by the Secretary of State under Rule 339C of Part 11 of the rules made under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971;

[F5 (n) has been granted section 67 leave.]

(6) In this regulation, a “family member” means a person who is defined as a family member of another person in Article 2 of Council Directive 2004/38/EC.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 27(2) inserted (1.7.2014) by The Child Benefit (General) and the Tax Credits (Residence) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1511), regs. 1, 4(2)

F2 Words in reg. 27(3) inserted (16.8.2007) by The Child Benefit (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2150), regs. 1, 10

F3 Words in reg. 27(3) substituted (8.11.2012) by The Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2612), regs. 1, 4

F4 Reg. 27(4)-(6) inserted (1.7.2014) by The Child Benefit (General) and the Tax Credits (Residence) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1511), regs. 1, 4(3)

F5 Reg. 27(5)(n) inserted (20.7.2018) by The Child Benefit, Tax Credits and Childcare Payments (Section 67 Immigration Act 2016 Leave) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/788), regs. 1, 2(4)