{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-trust-funds-act-2004/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-trust-funds-act-2004/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/6",
  "legislation_title": "Child Trust Funds Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-trust-funds-act-2004",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Inalienability",
  "text": "(1) Any assignment of, or agreement to assign, investments under a child trust fund, and any charge on or agreement to charge any such investments, is void.\n(2) On the bankruptcy of a child by whom a child trust fund is held, the entitlement to investments under it does not pass to any trustee or other person acting on behalf of the child’s creditors.\n(3) “Assignment” includes assignation; and “assign” is to be construed accordingly.\n(4) “Charge on or agreement to charge” includes a right in security over or an agreement to create a right in security over.\n(5) “Bankruptcy”, in relation to a child, includes the sequestration of the child’s estate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 4 in force at 6.4.2005 by S.I. 2004/3369, art. 2(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/6/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:22.419555+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."
}