{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-childcare-payments-eligibility-regulations-2015/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-childcare-payments-eligibility-regulations-2015/regulation-17.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/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Application of sections 12 and 13 to EEA residents",
  "text": "(1) Sections 12 and 13 (neither the person nor his or her partner may be in a relevant childcare scheme or receiving other childcare support) apply to a resident of another EEA state who is in paid work in the United Kingdom, and to such a person’s partner, with the modifications in paragraph (2).\n(2) The modifications in this paragraph are—\n(a) in section 12—\n(i) a reference to a “relevant childcare scheme” includes a scheme which, under the law of another EEA state, provides support of a substantially similar character to a scheme under section 270A (limited exemption for qualifying childcare vouchers) or 318 (childcare: exemption for employer-provided care) of ITEPA 2003; and\n(ii) “eligible employee” means a person who is eligible for such a scheme;\n(b) in section 13, a reference to “national authority” includes an authority of another EEA state.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 c. 1. Section 270A was inserted by paragraph 3 of Schedule 13 to the Finance Act 2004 (c. 12) and amended by sections 15 and 16 of the Finance Act 2005 (c. 7), section 36 of and paragraph 2 of Schedule 13 to the Finance Act 2011 (c. 11), S.I. 2006/882 and S.I. 2013/513. Section 318 was substituted by paragraph 1 of Schedule 13 to the Finance Act 2004 and was amended by section 16 of the Finance Act 2005, S.I. 2008/2170, 2009/1544 and 2011/775."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2015/9780111127063/regulation/17",
    "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."
}