{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-payments-act-2014/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-payments-act-2014/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2014/28",
  "legislation_title": "Childcare Payments Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-payments-act-2014",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "The person must be in the UK",
  "text": "(1) A person meets the condition of eligibility in this section if the person is in the United Kingdom on the date of the declaration.\n(2) Regulations may—\n(a) specify circumstances in which a person is to be treated as being, or not being, in the United Kingdom;\n(b) specify circumstances in which temporary absence from the United Kingdom is disregarded;\n(c) modify the application of this Act in relation to persons of a specified description who are treated as being in the United Kingdom for the purposes of this Act.\n(3) In subsection (2) “specified” means specified in the regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 8 partly in force at Royal Assent; s. 8 in force for specified purposes at Royal Assent, see s. 75(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 8 in force at 14.11.2016 for the purposes of the trial by S.I. 2016/1083, reg. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 8 in force at 21.4.2017 for specified purposes by S.I. 2017/578, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "S. 8 in force at 16.5.2017 so far as not already in force in respect of those recruited to participate in the trial by S.I. 2017/578, reg. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I5",
      "text": "S. 8 in force at 14.7.2017 for specified purposes by S.I. 2017/750, reg. 2(1)(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I6",
      "text": "S. 8 in force at 24.11.2017 for specified purposes by S.I. 2017/1116, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I7",
      "text": "S. 8 in force at 15.1.2018 for specified purposes by S.I. 2018/27, reg. 2(1)(3)(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I8",
      "text": "S. 8 in force at 14.2.2018 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2018/27, reg. 2(2)(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/28/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:18.833716+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."
}