PART 6MEANING OF TERMS IN THE 1991 ACT

Meaning of “child” for the purposes of the 1991 ActI176

The prescribed condition for the purposes of section 55(1) of the 1991 Act M1 (that is the condition that must be satisfied if a person who has attained the age of 16 but not the age of 20 is to fall with the meaning of “child”) is that the person is a qualifying young person as defined in section 142(2) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 M2.

Annotations:
Commencement Information
I1

Reg. 76 wholly in force; reg. 76 not in force at made date; reg. 76 in force at 29.7.2013 for certain purposes and reg. 76 in force at 25.11.2013 in so far as not already in force, see reg. 1, SI 2013/1860 and S.I. 2013/2947

Marginal Citations
M1

Section 55 was substituted by section 42 of the 2008 Act.

M2

1992 c. 4. Section 142 defines the terms “child” and “qualifying young person” for the purposes of entitlement to child benefit. A child is a person under 16 and a qualifying young person is a person aged 16 or over who satisfies conditions in regulations made by Her Majesty's Treasury. The relevant regulations are S.I. 2006/223 as amended by S.I. 2007/2150, 2008/1879 and 2009/3268.

F1Meaning of “relevant other child” for the purposes of the 1991 ActI277

For the purposes of paragraph 10C(2)(b) of Schedule 1 to the 1991 Act (which provides for other descriptions of relevant other children to be prescribed) “F1for the purposes of the 1991 Act” includes a child, other than a qualifying child, in respect of whom the non-resident parent or the non-resident parent's partner would receive

F2a

child benefit, but in respect of whom they do not do so, solely because the conditions set out in section 146 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (persons outside Great Britain) are not metF3; or

b

has made an election under section 13A(1) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (election not to receive child benefit) for payments of child benefit not to be made.

Persons who are not persons with careI378

1

The following categories of person are not persons with care for the purposes of the 1991 Act—

a

a local authority;

b

a person with whom a child who is looked after by a local authority is placed by that authority under the provisions of the Children Act 1989, except where that person is a parent of such a child and the local authority allow the child to live with that parent under section 22C(2) F4... of that Act M3;

c

in Scotland, a family or relative with whom a child is placed by a local authority under the provisions of section 26 of the Children (Scotland) Act F51995; M4

d

in Wales, a person with whom a child who is looked after by a local authority is placed by that authority under the provisions of Part 6 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014, except where that person is a parent of such a child and the local authority allow the child to live with that parent under section 81(2) of that Act.

2

In paragraph (1)—

  • “a child who is looked after by a local authority” has the same meaning as in section 22 of the Children Act 1989 or section 17(6) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 F6or section 74 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 as the case may be;

  • “family” means a family other than a family defined in section 93(1) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995.