Regulation 3 Amendment of regulation 4B of the principal regulations

After paragraph (2) of regulation 4B of the principal regulations (circumstances in which a person entitled to child benefit is to be treated as if he were not so entitled) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(3)

For the purposes of sections 31(b) (child’s special allowance), 38(1) (guardian’s allowance), 41, 44(3)(c), 46(2), 49, 64(1) and 66(1)(d) (increase of benefit in respect of dependent children and persons having care of dependent children) and 70(1)(a)(ii) (industrial death benefit) a person who is entitled to child benefit in respect of a child shall be treated as not so entitled for any period for which that benefit is not payable by virtue of any of the provisions of regulations 7 (circumstances in which a person who has ceased to receive full-time education is to continue to be treated as a child), 7A (exclusion from benefit of children aged 16 but under the age of 19 who are receiving advanced education), 7B (child receiving financial support under the Employment and Training Act 1973) or 7C (child receiving supplementary benefit) of the Child Benefit (General) Regulations 1976^f1.”