{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-payments-eligibility-regulations-2015/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-payments-eligibility-regulations-2015/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/448",
  "legislation_title": "The Childcare Payments (Eligibility) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-payments-eligibility-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Self-employed persons: start-up periods",
  "text": "(1) A self-employed person does not have to meet the condition in regulation 9(1)(b) or (c) in respect of—\n(a) their first declaration of eligibility, if it is made within a start-up period; and\n(b) declarations of eligibility in each of the three entitlement periods immediately following that start-up period.\n(2) A “start-up period” is the period of 12 months following the commencement by the self-employed person of any trade, profession or vocation.\n(3) A self-employed person cannot rely on a second or subsequent start-up period (in relation to the commencement by that person of a new trade, profession or vocation) unless at least 48 months have passed since the end of the previous start-up period.\n(4) In paragraph (3) “the previous start-up period” is the period during which the person did not have to meet the condition in regulation 9(1)(b) or (c).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 11(1) substituted (1.12.2022) by The Childcare Payments (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1148), regs. 1, 2(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(3) substituted (7.12.2017) by The Childcare Payments (Eligibility) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1101), regs. 1, 5(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(4) inserted (7.12.2017) by The Childcare Payments (Eligibility) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1101), regs. 1, 5(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/448/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:45:28.152160+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."
}