{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-in-pregnancy-grant-administration-regulations-2008/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-in-pregnancy-grant-administration-regulations-2008/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/3109",
  "legislation_title": "The Health in Pregnancy Grant (Administration) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-in-pregnancy-grant-administration-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Persons or bodies who may act on behalf of claimants unable to act",
  "text": "(1) A person or body may act on behalf of a claimant for health in pregnancy grant if the claimant, (“C”), is for the time being unable to act.\n(2) Anything required by these regulations to be done by or to C may be done by or to—\n(a) in England and Wales, a receiver appointed by the Court of Protection with power to claim, or, as the case may be, receive, the grant on behalf of C;\n(b) in Scotland, a guardian acting or appointed under the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 who is administering the estate of C;\n(c) in Northern Ireland, a controller appointed by the High Court, with power to claim, or, as the case may be, receive, the grant on behalf of C;\n(d) (where no person has been appointed as mentioned in subparagraphs (a) to (c)) a person or body acting on behalf of C where that person or body—\n(i) is, if a natural person, over the age of 18 years\n(ii) has applied to the Commissioners in writing to act on behalf of C.\n(3) A person or body under (d)—\n(i) will be permitted to act subject to the discretion of the Commissioners;\n(ii) must give one month’s notice in writing to the Commissioners prior to ceasing to act on behalf of C.\n(4) Where health in pregnancy grant is paid to a person or body mentioned in paragraph (2), either of the following is a sufficient discharge to the Commissioners for the sum paid—\n(a) a credit to a bank or other account in the name of the person or body; or\n(b) the receipt by the person or body of an instrument of payment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 asp 4."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/3109/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:20:53.922471+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."
}