Regulation 2 Amendment of the Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments Regulations 2000

The Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments Regulations 2000^f1 are amended as follows.

In regulation 2 (persons not excluded from specified benefits under section 115 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999), for paragraph (3A) substitute—

“(3A)

For the purposes of entitlement to child benefit under the Contributions and Benefits Act^f2, a person—

(a)

who is lawfully working in Great Britain; and

(b)

who is a national of a State with which the United Kingdom has concluded an agreement which replaces, in whole or in part, an agreement under Article 217 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union^f3 which makes provision for the receipt of family allowances for members of their family who are legally resident in the United Kingdom,

is a person to whom section 115 of the Act^f4 does not apply.”.