{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/individual-savings-account-regulations-1998/regulation-4ZC",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/individual-savings-account-regulations-1998/regulation-4ZC.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1870",
  "legislation_title": "The Individual Savings Account Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/individual-savings-account-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/4ZC",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4ZC",
  "heading": "Inalienability of a junior ISA account",
  "text": "(1) Any assignment of, or agreement to assign, investments under a junior ISA account, and any charge on or agreement to charge any such investments, is void.\n(2) On the bankruptcy of the named child holding a junior ISA account, the entitlement to investments under it does not pass to any trustee or other person acting on behalf of the child’s creditors.\n(3) “Assignment” includes assignation; and “assign” is to be construed accordingly.\n(4) “Charge on or agreement to charge” includes a right in security over or an agreement to create a right in security over.\n(5) “Bankruptcy”, in relation to a named child, includes the sequestration of the child’s estate.\n(6) Paragraph (1) shall not render void anything done to vest title to an account investment as required by regulation 4(6)(b)(ia) or 15(a) by virtue of—\n(a) a transfer of an account in accordance with regulation 21B; or\n(b) a change of registered contact in relation to a junior ISA account.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 4ZA-4ZE inserted (1.11.2011) by The Individual Savings Account (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1780), regs. 1, 8"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1870/regulation/4ZC",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:24:14.041613+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."
}