{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-regulations-1987/regulation-29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-regulations-1987/regulation-29.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1968",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/29",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Payment to a person under age 18",
  "text": "Where benefit is paid to a person under the age of 18 (whether on his own behalf or on behalf of another) a direct credit transfer under regulation 21 into that person’s account, or the receipt by him of a payment made by some other means, shall be a sufficient discharge to the Secretary of State or the Board.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 29 substituted (4.4.1996) by The Social Security (Claims and Payments Etc.) Amendment Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/672), regs. 1, 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 29 substituted (23.10.2002) by The Social Security (Claims and Payments and Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2441), regs. 1(1)(a), 6 (with reg. 15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 29 inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Tax Credits (Claims and Payments) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2572), regs. 1(1), 20, Sch. Pt. I"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1968/regulation/29",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:17:50.477745+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."
}