{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-etc-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-etc-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/672",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Claims and Payments Etc.) Amendment Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-etc-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987",
  "text": "(1) The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987 are amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) In regulation 21—\n(a) in paragraph (1) the words “to which this regulation applies\"; and\n(b) paragraph (6),\nshall be omitted.\n(4) For regulation 29 there is substituted the following regulation—\n“ Payments to persons under age 18\n29 Where benefit is paid to a person under the age of 18 (whether on his own behalf or on behalf of another) the receipt of that person shall be a sufficient discharge to the Secretary of State.”.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 2(2) revoked (10.4.2006) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/832), regs. 1(2), 7(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 2(5)-(8) revoked (10.4.2006) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/832), regs. 1(2), 7(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1968. The relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1989/1686, 1992/247 and 1026, 1993/1113, 1994/2319, 2943 and 3196."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 modified (7.4.2003 for specified purposes) by The Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance (Administration) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/492), regs. 1, 43, Sch. 3 Pt. 1 (with regs. 1(2), 44)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/672/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:48:56.962516+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."
}