{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-child-payment-regulations-2020/regulation-19A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-child-payment-regulations-2020/regulation-19A.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2020/351",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Child Payment Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-child-payment-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/19A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19A",
  "heading": "Circumstances in which assistance may be suspended",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers may decide that an individual who has an ongoing entitlement to Scottish child payment in respect of a period by virtue of regulation 19 is not to become entitled to be given some or all of that assistance at the time at which the individual otherwise would in accordance with that regulation, as read with regulation 21 (time of payment) (referred to in these Regulations as a decision to suspend the individual’s Scottish child payment).\n(2) Where such a decision is made in respect of an individual, payments of Scottish child payment to that individual are to be suspended until such time as the Scottish Ministers decide to end the suspension in accordance with regulation 19E.\n(3) The Scottish Ministers may decide to suspend an individual’s Scottish child payment only in the circumstances where—\n(a) paragraph 25(2) of the schedule applies, or\n(b) the Scottish Ministers have made arrangements (whether under section 85A of the 2018 Act, section 85B of the 2018 Act or otherwise) for a person to receive the Scottish child payment on the individual’s behalf, and the Scottish Ministers consider that it is necessary to suspend the Scottish child payment—\n(i) in order to protect the individual from the risk of financial abuse, or\n(ii) because the person with whom the Scottish Ministers have made arrangements is unable to continue to receive the Scottish child payment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 19A-19G inserted (9.2.2022) by The Scottish Child Payment Regulations 2020 and the Disability Assistance for Children and Young People (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/41), regs. 1, 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 19A(2) substituted (6.11.2025) by The Social Security (Cross-border Provision, Case Transfer and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/336), regs. 1(2), 7(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2020/351/regulation/19A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:59:50.346878+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."
}