{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-payments-regulations-2015/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-payments-regulations-2015/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/522",
  "legislation_title": "The Childcare Payments Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-payments-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Variation of relevant maximum: infrastructure failure",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where a payment is prevented from being made into a childcare account by a serious technical failure affecting—\n(a) HMRC;\n(b) the account provider; or\n(c) a bank or provider of banking services.\n(2) Where this regulation applies, the relevant maximum for the next entitlement period beginning after the failure is increased by—\nX − Qwhere—\nX is, in the case of a disabled child, £4,000, or in the case of any other child, £2,000; and\nQ is the sum of qualifying payments made into the childcare account during the entitlement period in which the failure occurred.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/522/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:44:37.199436+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."
}