{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/guardians-allowance-general-regulations-2003/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/guardians-allowance-general-regulations-2003/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/495",
  "legislation_title": "The Guardian’s Allowance (General) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/guardians-allowance-general-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Prescribed manner of making an election under section 77(9) of the Act or section 77(9) of the Northern Ireland Act",
  "text": "(1) An election under section 77(9) of the Act or section 77(9) of the Northern Ireland Act (payment of guardian’s allowance not to be made to a husband) must –\n(a) be in writing, and\n(b) be made either –\n(i) on a form approved by the Board, or\n(ii) in such other manner as the Board may accept as sufficient in the circumstances of the particular case.\n(2) Notice of the election must be given at an appropriate office.\n(3) In paragraph (2) “an appropriate office” means—\n(a) Waterview Park, Washington, Tyne and Wear; or\n(b) any other office specified in writing by the Board.\n(4) An election may be given by means of electronic communication in accordance with Schedule 2 to the Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance (Administration) Regulations 2003.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 10(2)(3) substituted (10.4.2006) by The Guardian’s Allowance (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/204), regs. 1, 9(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 10(3) substituted (1.1.2010) by The Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3268), regs. 1, 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 10 in force at 7.4.2003 (in accordance with reg. 1), see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/492."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/495/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:30:55.628630+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."
}