The Child Benefit (General) Regulations 2006

Extension period: 16 and 17 year oldsU.K.

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5.—(1) This regulation applies in the case of a person who has not attained the age of 18.

(2) The condition is that—

(a)the person has ceased to be in education or training;

(b)the person is registered for work, education or for training with a qualifying body;

(c)the person is not engaged in remunerative work;

(d)the extension period which applies in the case of that person has not expired;

(e)immediately before the extension period begins, the person who is responsible for him is entitled to child benefit in respect of him without regard to this regulation; and

[F1(f)the individual who is responsible for that person, within three months of that person’s ceasing education or training, has made a request for the payment of child benefit during the extension period to the Commissioners, in writing, or by such other means as the Commissioners may accept.]

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2) the extension period—

(a)begins on the first day of the week after that in which the person ceased to be in education or training; and

(b)ends 20 weeks after it started.

(4) In this regulation “qualifying body” means—

(a)the Careers Service or Connexions Service;

(b)the Ministry of Defence;

(c)in Northern Ireland, the Department for [F2Communities, the Department for the Economy or the Education Authority;] or

(d)for the purposes of applying Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1408/71 [F3or Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council], any corresponding body in another member State.

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