{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-contributions-credits-for-parents-and-carers-regulations-2009/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-contributions-credits-for-parents-and-carers-regulations-2009/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2009/9780111486030",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Contributions Credits for Parents and Carers) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-contributions-credits-for-parents-and-carers-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Meaning of “engaged in caring”",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of subsection (3)(c) of section 23A, a person is engaged in caring in a week—\n(a) if that person is the partner of a person who is awarded child benefit for any part of that week in respect of a child under the age of 12;\n(b) if that person is caring for another person or persons for a total of 20 or more hours in that week and—\n(i) that other person is, or each of the persons cared for are, entitled to a relevant benefit for that week; or\n(ii) the Secretary of State considers that level of care to be appropriate;\n(c) if that person is one to whom any of paragraphs 4 to 6 (persons caring for another person) of Schedule 1B (prescribed categories of person) to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 applies.\n(2) Paragraph (1) is subject to regulations 6 to 8.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1967. Schedule 1B was inserted by S.I. 1996/206. Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1996/1517, S.I. 2000/681, S.I. 2001/859, S.I. 2002/490 and S.I. 2002/2497."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2009/9780111486030/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:56:49.710826+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."
}