{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-benefit-and-guardians-allowance-administration-regulations-2003/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-benefit-and-guardians-allowance-administration-regulations-2003/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/492",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance (Administration) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-benefit-and-guardians-allowance-administration-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Claims for child benefit treated as claims for guardian’s allowance and vice versa",
  "text": "(1) Where it appears to the Board that a person who has made a claim for child benefit in respect of a child or qualifying young person may be entitled to guardian’s allowance in respect of the same child or qualifying young person, the Board may treat, either in the alternative or in addition, the claim as being a claim for guardian’s allowance by that person.\n(2) Where it appears to the Board that a person who has made a claim for guardian’s allowance in respect of a child or qualifying young person may be entitled to child benefit in respect of the same child or qualifying young person, the Board may treat, either in the alternative or in addition, the claim as being a claim for child benefit by that person.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(1)(2) inserted (10.4.2006) by The Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/203), regs. 1, 2(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(1)(2) inserted (10.4.2006) by The Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/203), regs. 1, 2(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 11 in force at 7.4.2003, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/492/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:30:58.368634+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}