{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-childcare-payments-eligibility-regulations-2015/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-childcare-payments-eligibility-regulations-2015/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2015/9780111127063",
  "legislation_title": "The Childcare Payments (Eligibility) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-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)—\n(a) in the first entitlement period which falls wholly or partly within a start-up period; and\n(b) in the subsequent 3 entitlement periods.\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 4 calendar years 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).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2015/9780111127063/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:10:46.477340+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."
}