{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-payments-regulations-2015/regulation-16A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-payments-regulations-2015/regulation-16A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/522",
  "legislation_title": "The Childcare Payments Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-payments-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/16A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16A",
  "heading": "Payments that may be made from childcare accounts",
  "text": "(1) A payment is treated as a permitted payment where it includes a reasonable fee payable to an intermediary.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), where there is more than one intermediary in the payment chain the total of all fees must be reasonable.\n(3) In this regulation “intermediary” means a supplier of an electronic payment system which allows persons to make payments into that system for the ultimate purpose of making payments to qualifying childcare providers.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 16A inserted (21.7.2020) by The Childcare Payments (Coronavirus and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/656), regs. 1, 5"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/522/regulation/16A",
    "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."
}