{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-child-benefit-consequential-regulations-1977/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-child-benefit-consequential-regulations-1977/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1977/342",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Child Benefit Consequential) Regulations 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-child-benefit-consequential-regulations-1977",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Circumstances in which a person entitled to child benefit is to be treated as if he were not so entitled",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 31 (child's special allowance), section 38 (guardian's allowance) or sections 41, 49 and 64(1) (benefit for beneficiary's dependent children) a person who is entitled to child benefit in respect of a child shall be treated as if he were not so entitled for—\n(a) any period throughout which—\n(i) that person, not being a parent of the child, does not fall to be treated as responsible for the child under section 3(1)(a) of the Child Benefit Act, and\n(ii) a parent of that child falls to be treated as responsible for the child under the said section 3(1)(a); or\n(b) any period throughout which—\n(i) that person, not being a parent of that child, falls to be treated as responsible for the child under section 3(1)(a) of the Child Benefit Act, and\n(ii) a parent of that child also falls to be treated as responsible for the child under the said section 3(1)(a); or\n(c) any day following the day on which that child died.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (1) shall not apply in the case of a person who is wholly or mainly maintaining the child referred to in that sub-paragraph.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1977/343",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Regulations 1977"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/342/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:06:53.233156+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."
}