{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-benefit-and-guardians-allowance-administration-regulations-2003/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-benefit-and-guardians-allowance-administration-regulations-2003/regulation-17.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/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Payment by other means",
  "text": "(1) Child benefit or guardian’s allowance may be paid by a means other than by direct credit transfer where it appears to the Board to be appropriate to do so in the circumstances of a particular case.\n(2) If a person entitled to child benefit is also entitled to guardian’s allowance, the allowance shall be paid in the same manner as that in which the child benefit is paid under this regulation.\n(3) An instrument of payment issued by the Board pursuant to this regulation shall—\n(a) remain the property of the Board, and\n(b) be returned immediately to the Board (or such person as the Board may direct) if the person who has the instrument—\n(i) is required to do so by the Board; or\n(ii) ceases to be entitled to any part of the benefit or allowance to which the instrument relates.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 substituted (1.11.2010) by The Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance (Administration) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2459), regs. 1, 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 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/17",
    "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."
}