The Child Benefit (General) Regulations 2006

Qualifying young person: terminal dates U.K.

7.—(1) This regulation applies in the case of a person who has not attained the age of 20.

(2) The condition is that the period found [F1 in accordance with—

(a) Cases 1 and 2, or,

(b) for Summer Term 2021 where a person has been entered as a 2021 candidate for external examinations in connection with relevant education that person was receiving and those examinations have been cancelled due to coronavirus, Cases 1 and 3,

has not expired in his case.]

Case 1

 

1.1 The period is from the date on which he ceases to receive relevant education or approved training, up to and including—

(a) the week including the terminal date, or

(b) if he attains the age of 20 on or before that date, the week including the last Monday before he attains that age.

1.2 For the purposes of this Case the “terminal date” means—

(a) the last day in February,

(b) the last day in May,

(c) the last day in August,

(d) the last day in November,

whichever first occurs after the date on which the person's relevant education or approved training ceased (but subject to paragraph 1.3 of this Case).

1.3 In the case of a person in Scotland who—

(a) undertakes the Higher Certificate or Advanced Higher Certificate immediately before ceasing relevant education, and

(b) ceases relevant education on a date earlier than he would have done had he undertaken the comparable examination in England and Wales,

the terminal date shall be reckoned by reference to the date on which the cessation would have occurred had he undertaken the comparable examination.

Case 2

 

2.1. Where a person's name is entered as a candidate for any external examination in connection with relevant education which he is receiving at that time, so long as his name continues to be so entered before ceasing to receive such education, the prescribed period is—

(a) from the later of—

(i) date when that person ceased to receive relevant education, or

(ii) the date on which he attained the age of 16,

(b) up to and including—

(i) whichever of the dates in paragraph 1.2 (as modified by paragraph 1.3 where appropriate) first occurs after the conclusion of the examination (or the last of the examinations if the person is entered for more than one), or

(ii) the expiry of the week which includes the last Monday before his 20th birthday,

whichever is the earlier.

This paragraph is subject to the following qualification.

[F2 Case 3

3.1. Where external examinations have been cancelled due to coronavirus, in the case of a person whose name had been entered as a 2021 candidate for any external examination in connection with relevant education which that person was receiving at that time, the period is from the date on which that person ceases to receive relevant education up to and including—

(a) whichever of the dates in paragraph 1.2 of Case 1 (as modified by paragraph 1.3 where appropriate) first occurs after the scheduled date of conclusion of the examination, or the last of those examinations where the person was entered for more than one, or

(b) if that person attains the age of 20 on or before that date, the week including the last Monday before that person attains that age.]

(3) Child benefit is not payable in respect of a qualifying young person by virtue of this regulation for any week in which he is engaged in remunerative work.

[F3 (4) In this regulation—

“coronavirus” means severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2,

“entered as a 2021 candidate” includes a person who would have been entered as a candidate for one or more external examinations in Summer Term 2021 if the external examinations had not been cancelled before that person was entered as a candidate for such examinations,

“scheduled date” means the date on which the examination board setting the relevant examination had scheduled that examination to take place, and

“Summer Term 2021” means the period beginning with 1st June 2021 and ending with 31st August 2021.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 7(2) substituted (31.5.2021) by The Child Benefit (General) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/630), regs. 1, 2(2)(a)(i)

F2 Words in reg. 7(2) inserted (31.5.2021) by The Child Benefit (General) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/630), regs. 1, 2(2)(a)(ii)

F3 Reg. 7(4) inserted (31.5.2021) by The Child Benefit (General) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/630), regs. 1, 2(2)(b)