{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-childcare-payments-eligibility-regulations-2015/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-childcare-payments-eligibility-regulations-2015/regulation-16.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/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Application of section 11 to EEA residents",
  "text": "(1) Section 11 (neither the person nor his or her partner may be claiming universal credit) applies with the modifications in paragraph (2) to a resident of another EEA state who is in paid work in the United Kingdom if, at the date of the declaration, that person or that person’s partner either—\n(a) is, under the law of that state, being paid in respect of a relevant assessment period a credit (an “equivalent credit”) which is substantially similar in character to universal credit; or\n(b) has made a claim that would result in an equivalent credit becoming payable to that person or that person’s partner in respect of a relevant assessment period.\n(2) The modifications in this paragraph are—\n(a) a reference to universal credit includes a reference to an equivalent credit; and\n(b) a reference to “the relevant legislation” includes a reference to the provisions governing the equivalent credit.",
  "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/16",
    "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."
}