{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-tax-credit-regulations-2002/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-tax-credit-regulations-2002/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2007",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Tax Credit Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-tax-credit-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Period for which a person who attains the age of sixteen is a qualifying young person",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (1A), a person who attains the age of sixteen is a qualifying young person from the date on which that person attained that age until 31st August which next follows that date.\n(1A) A person who attains the age of sixteen on 31st August is a qualifying young person from the date on which that person attained that age.\n(2) Paragraph (1) is subject to regulation 5 but as if there were no requirement to satisfy the first condition specified in paragraph (3) of that regulation.\n(2A) Paragraph (1A) is subject to regulation 5.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 substituted (1.9.2008) by The Tax Credits (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2169), regs. 1, 9(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1) substituted (6.4.2012) by The Tax Credits (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/848), regs. 1(2), 4(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 4(1A) inserted (6.4.2012) by The Tax Credits (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/848), regs. 1(2), 4(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 4(2A) inserted (6.4.2012) by The Tax Credits (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/848), regs. 1(2), 4(4)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "appl (6.4.2003)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2173",
      "affecting_title": "The Tax Credits (Payments by the Commissioners) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2007/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:51:19.266331+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."
}