{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-approval-of-home-child-care-providers-scheme-2003/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-approval-of-home-child-care-providers-scheme-2003/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/463",
  "legislation_title": "The Tax Credits (Approval of Home Child Care Providers) Scheme 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-approval-of-home-child-care-providers-scheme-2003",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "In this Scheme–\n“the 1989 Act” means the Children Act 1989;\n“approval criteria” has the meaning given to it in article 8;\n“the Chief Inspector” means Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Schools in England;\n“child” has the meaning attributed to it by the Child Tax Credit Regulations 2002;\n“parent” includes a person who–\n(a) has parental responsibility for a child;\n(b) is a local authority foster parent in relation to a child;\n(c) is a foster parent with whom a child has been placed by a voluntary organisation; and\n(d) fosters a child privately;\n“parental responsibility” and “fosters a child privately” have the meanings attributed to those respective expressions by sections 3 and 66 of the 1989 Act;\n“qualifying child care” means care provided–\n(a) for reward; and\n(b) in respect of a child other than a child to whom the provider is a parent or relative;\n“relative” in relation to a child means a grand parent, brother, sister, uncle or aunt (whether of the full blood or half blood or by affinity) or step-parent;\n“the Tribunal” means the Tribunal established by section 9 of the Protection of Children Act 1999;\n“the Tribunal Regulations” means the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults and Care Standards Tribunal Regulations 2002;\n“the Suspension Regulations” means the Child Minding and Day Care (Suspension of Registration) (England) Regulations 2003.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector is appointed under section 1 of the School Inspections Act 1996 (c. 57)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/2007."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1999 c. 14."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/816."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/332."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/463/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:31:09.562298+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."
}