{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-2000/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-2000/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2891",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-2000",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Child Benefit (General) Regulations 1976 (S.I. 1976/965) (“the principal Regulations”).\nIn particular, these Regulations—\nprovide new definitions of various Acts referred to in the principal Regulations (regulation 2(a));\nreplace references in the principal Regulations to youth training scheme with references to a relevant training scheme (regulations 2(b), 4, 5 and 7(a));\nprescribe circumstances where a child’s absence in residential accommodation pursuant to certain provisions is to be disregarded (regulation 3);\nprovide that child benefit shall not be payable in respect of a child who satisfies certain conditions of entitlement to incapacity benefit (regulations 6 and 7(c));\nupdate references to the persons with whom a person under 18 may be registered for work or training to include those persons with whom the Secretary of State, the National Assembly for Wales or Scottish Ministers have made arrangements under specified legislation (regulation 7(b));\nprescribe circumstances where child benefit is not payable in respect of a child in the care of a local authority (regulation 8);\nupdate references to legislation in the provisions in the principal Regulations relating to the right to benefit of voluntary organisations (regulation 9).\nThese Regulations do not impose any charge on business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2891/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:11:30.804842+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."
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