{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-general-regulations-1987/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-general-regulations-1987/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1973",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-general-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Persons of a prescribed description",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person of a prescribed description for the purposes of section 20(5)(c) (entitlement) and section 20(11) of the Act (definition of the family) as it applies to working families' tax credit is a person aged 16 or over but under 19 who is receiving full-time education within section 142(1)(c) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (meaning of child), and in these Regulations such a person is referred to as “a young person”.\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a person–\n(a) who is entitled to income support or would, but for section 20(9) of the Act (provision against dual entitlement of members of family), be so entitled;\n(aa) who is entitled to income-based jobseeker’s allowance or would, but for section 3(1)(d) of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (provision against dual entitlement of members of family), be so entitled;\n(b) who is receiving advanced education within the meaning of regulation 1(2) of the Child Benefit (General) Regulations 1976; or\n(c) who has ceased to receive full-time education but is to continue to be treated as a child by virtue of regulation 7 of the Child Benefit (General) Regulations 1976.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(1) substituted (5.10.1999) by The Tax Credits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2487), regs. 1(1), 26(1), Sch. 1 para. 1(vi)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Tax Credits (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 4) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/1082), regs. 1(1), 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 6(2) substituted (10.4.1990) by Family Credit (General) Amendment Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/574), reg. 1(1), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 6(2)(aa) inserted (7.10.1996) by The Social Security and Child Support (Jobseeker’s Allowance) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1345), regs. 1, 8(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1973/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-10T03:34:16.817264+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."
}