{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-benefit-and-guardians-allowance-administration-regulations-2003/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-benefit-and-guardians-allowance-administration-regulations-2003/regulation-2.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/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the adjudicating authority” means—\n(a)the Board;\n(b)an appeal tribunal constituted under ... Chapter 1 of Part 2 of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998; or\n(c)a Commissioner ... to whom an appeal lies under Article 15 of that Order;\n(d)the First-tier Tribunal or the Upper Tribunal;\n“the Administration Act” means the Social Security Administration Act 1992;\n“the Administration (NI) Act” means the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992;\n“appropriate office” means—\n(a)Waterview Park, Washington, Tyne and Wear; or\n(b)any other office specified in writing by the Board.\n“the approved form” has the meaning given by regulation 5(1)(a);\n“the Board” means the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs;\n“civil partnership” means two people ... who are civil partners of each other and are neither—\n(a)separated under a court order, nor\n(b)separated in circumstances in which the separation is likely to be permanent;\n“cohabiting couple” means two people who are not a married couple or in a civil partnership but are living together as if they were married or civil partners;\n“the Contributions and Benefits Act” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;\n“the Contributions and Benefits (NI) Act” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992;\n“interim payment” has the meaning given by regulation 22(1);\n“married couple” means a man and a woman who are married to each other and are neither—\n(a)separated under a court order, nor\n(b)separated in circumstances in which the separation is likely to be permanent;\n“partner” means a member of a married couple, a civil partnership or a cohabiting couple;\n“relevant authority” means—\n(a)in relation to child benefit or guardian’s allowance under the Contributions and Benefits Act, the Secretary of State or a person providing services to the Secretary of State;\n(b)in relation to child benefit or guardian’s allowance under the Contributions and Benefits (NI) Act, the Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland or a person providing services to that Department;\n...\n“writing” includes writing produced by electronic communications used in accordance with Schedule 2.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 omitted (3.11.2008) by virtue of The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2683), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 211(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 omited (3.11.2008) by The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2683), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 211(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (3.11.2008) by The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2683), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 211(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (1.1.2010) by The Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3268), regs. 1, 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (10.4.2006) by The Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/203), regs. 1, 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Tax Credits, etc.) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2919), arts. 1, 12(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 omitted (2.12.2019) by virtue of The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 64(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 64(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Tax Credits, etc.) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2919), arts. 1, 12(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 64(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 omitted (2.12.2019) by virtue of The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 64(2)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 7.4.2003, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Article 15 was amended by Schedule 9 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/671)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1992 c. 5."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1992 c. 8."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1992 c. 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1992 c. 7."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/492/regulation/2",
    "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."
}