# The Social Security (Child Benefit Consequential) Regulations 1977, Regulation 12: Amendment of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1975


In the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1975, as amended, in regulation 7 (information to be given when making a claim for benefit) there shall be made the following amendments—
(a) in paragraph (2), for the words “the child is or may be treated as included in that person's family” there shall be substituted the words “that person is entitled or may be treated by regulations as if he were entitled to child benefit in respect of that child”;
(b) in paragraph (4)(a), for the words “the child was a child of the family of that person”, there shall be substituted the words “that person was entitled to child benefit in respect of the child”;
(c) after paragraph (4) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
“(5) In this regulation the expression “child benefit” means benefit under Part I of the Child Benefit Act 1975. ”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/342/regulation/12 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-child-benefit-consequential-regulations-1977/regulation-12
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