{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-benefit-and-guardians-allowance-administration-regulations-2003/regulation-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-benefit-and-guardians-allowance-administration-regulations-2003/regulation-34.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/34",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Payment to partner as alternative payee",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), where a person with a partner is entitled to child benefit or guardian’s allowance, the Board may make arrangements whereby that benefit or allowance, as well as being payable to the person entitled to it, may, in the alternative, be paid to that person’s partner on behalf of that person.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to guardian’s allowance where a woman has elected that the allowance is not to be paid to her husband or male civil partner in accordance with regulation 10 of the Guardian’s Allowance (General) Regulations 2003 (prescribed manner of making an election under section 77(9) of the Contributions and Benefits Act and section 77(9) of the Contributions and Benefits (NI) Act).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 34(1) substituted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 64(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 34(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(3)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 34(2) inserted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 64(3)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 34 in force at 7.4.2003, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/495."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/492/regulation/34",
    "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."
}