{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-benefit-general-regulations-2006/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-benefit-general-regulations-2006/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/223",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Benefit (General) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-benefit-general-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Education and training condition",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies in the case of a person who has not attained the age of 20.\n(2) The condition is that the person—\n(a) is undertaking a course of full-time education, which is not advanced education and which is not provided by virtue of his employment or any office held by him—\n(i) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(ab) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) having undertaken such a course as is mentioned in paragraph (a) ... has been accepted or is enrolled to undertake a further such course;\n(c) is undertaking approved training that is not provided by means of a contract of employment; or\n(d) having undertaken a course mentioned in paragraph (a) or approved training mentioned in paragraph (c), has been accepted or is enrolled to undertake such approved training.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) A person who is aged 19 is only a qualifying young person by virtue of paragraph (2)(a)... or (2)(c) if he began the education or training (as the case may be) referred to in that sub-paragraph, or was accepted or enrolled to undertake that education or training, before attaining that age.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 3(2)(a)(i)(ii) omitted (1.9.2025) by virtue of The Child Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/818), regs. 1, 2(3)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 3(2)(ab) omitted (1.9.2025) by virtue of The Child Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/818), regs. 1, 2(3)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(2)(b) substituted (4.6.2014) by The Child Benefit (General) and Child Tax Credit (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1231), regs. 1, 2(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(2)(b) omitted (1.9.2025) by virtue of The Child Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/818), regs. 1, 2(3)(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(2)(b) substituted (16.8.2007) by The Child Benefit (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2150), regs. 1, 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 3(2)(d) and preceding word inserted (16.8.2007) by The Child Benefit (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2150), regs. 1, 4(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 3(3) omitted (1.9.2025) by virtue of The Child Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/818), regs. 1, 2(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(4) substituted (4.6.2014) by The Child Benefit (General) and Child Tax Credit (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1231), regs. 1, 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3(4) omitted (1.9.2025) by virtue of The Child Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/818), regs. 1, 2(3)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(4) inserted (16.8.2007) by The Child Benefit (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2150), regs. 1, 4(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Reg. 3(5) omitted (1.9.2025) by virtue of The Child Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/818), regs. 1, 2(3)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/223/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:38:34.629656+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."
}