{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-benefit-and-guardians-allowance-administration-regulations-2003/schedule-2/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-benefit-and-guardians-allowance-administration-regulations-2003/schedule-2/paragraph-7.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": "schedule/2/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Effect of delivering information by means of electronic communications",
  "text": "(1) Information which is delivered by means of electronic communications shall be treated as having been delivered in the manner or form required by any provision of these Regulations if, but only if, all the conditions imposed by—\n(a) this Schedule,\n(b) any other applicable enactment (except to the extent that the condition thereby imposed is incompatible with this Schedule); and\n(c) any specific or general direction given by the Board,\nare satisfied.\n(2) Information delivered by means of electronic communications shall be treated as having been delivered on the day on which the last of the conditions imposed as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) is satisfied.\nThis is subject to the following qualifications.\n(3) The Board may by a general or specific direction provide for information to be treated as delivered upon a different date (whether earlier or later) than that given by sub-paragraph (2).\n(4) Information shall not be taken to have been delivered to an official computer system by means of electronic communications unless it is accepted by the system to which it is delivered.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 applied (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/916), regs. 1(1), 4(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 7 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/schedule/2/paragraph/7",
    "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."
}