{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-act-2002/section-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-act-2002/section-14.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/21",
  "legislation_title": "Tax Credits Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-act-2002",
  "path": "section/14",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Initial decisions",
  "text": "(1) On a claim for a tax credit the Board must decide—\n(a) whether to make an award of the tax credit, and\n(b) if so, the rate at which to award it.\n(2) Before making their decision the Board may by notice—\n(a) require the person, or either or both of the persons, by whom the claim is made to provide any information or evidence which the Board consider they may need for making their decision, or\n(b) require any person of a prescribed description to provide any information or evidence of a prescribed description which the Board consider they may need for that purpose,\nby the date specified in the notice.\n(3) The Board’s power to decide the rate at which to award a tax credit includes power to decide to award it at a nil rate.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 1 repealed (1.2.2019 with savings in relation to specified cases in art. 3 of the commencing S.I.) by Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5), s. 150(3), Sch. 14 Pt. 1; S.I. 2019/167, arts. 2, 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 14-19 disapplied (E.W.) (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(1) of the amending S.I.) by The Tax Credits Act 2002 (Additional Payments Modification and Disapplication) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1208), regs. 1(1), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 14 wholly in force at 1.1.2003; s. 14 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 61; s. 14(2) in force for certain purposes at 9.7.2002 and otherwise in force at 1.8.2002 and s. 14(1)(3) in force at 1.1.2003 by S.I. 2002/1727, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/21/section/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:30.203543+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."
}