Regulation 16 Variation of relevant maximum: infrastructure failure
(1)
This regulation applies where a payment is prevented from being made into a childcare account by a serious technical failure affecting—
(a)
HMRC;
(b)
the account provider; or
(c)
a bank or provider of banking services.
(2)
Where this regulation applies, the relevant maximum for the next entitlement period beginning after the failure is increased by—
where—
X is, in the case of a disabled child, £4,000, or in the case of any other child, £2,000; and
Q is the sum of qualifying payments made into the childcare account during the entitlement period in which the failure occurred.