{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-2000/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-2000/regulation-3.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": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Substitution of regulation 3 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "For regulation 3 of the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the following regulation—\n“Child in residential accommodation in prescribed circumstances\n3 (1) The prescribed circumstances for the purposes of section 143(3)(c) of the Benefits Act (absence of child disregarded if in residential accommodation pursuant to certain provisions) are any circumstances in which a child is in residential accommodation pursuant to arrangements made under—\n(a) where the child has attained the age of 18, section 21 of the National Assistance Act 1948 or under section 12 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968; or\n(b) the provisions specified in paragraph (2),\nand such accommodation has been provided solely on account of that child’s disability or because his health would be likely to be significantly impaired, or further impaired, unless such accommodation was provided.\n(2) The provisions specified for the purposes of paragraph (1)(b) are—\n(a) the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978;\n(b) the Education (Scotland) Act 1980;\n(c) the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984;\n(d) the 1989 Act;\n(e) the 1995 Act.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1948 c. 29. Section 21 was amended by the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (c. 49), section 95(2) and Schedule 9; the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), sections 195 and 272, Schedule 23, paragraph 2 and Schedule 30; the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 (c. 32), section 58 and Schedule 5, paragraph 44; the Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977 (c. 48), section 20(4) and the Schedule; the Children Act 1989 (c. 41), section 108(5) and Schedule 13, paragraph 11(1); the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), sections 42(1) and 66(1) and (2) and Schedule 9, paragraph 5(1) to (3) and Schedule 10 and the Community Care (Residential Accommodation) Act 1998 (c. 19), section 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1968 c. 49. Section 12 was amended by the Community Care (Residential Accommodation) Act 1998 (c. 19), section 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1978 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1980 c. 44."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1984 c. 36."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2891/regulation/3",
    "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."
}