{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-payments-by-the-commissioners-regulations-2002/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-payments-by-the-commissioners-regulations-2002/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2173",
  "legislation_title": "The Tax Credits (Payments by the Commissioners) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tax-credits-payments-by-the-commissioners-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Time of payment by way of a credit to a bank account or other account",
  "text": "(1) ... This regulation applies where the tax credit or element is to be paid by way of a credit to a bank account or other account notified to the Commissioners.\n(2) Subject to paragraphs (2A) and (2B), the tax credit or element shall be paid—\n(a) each week; or\n(b) every four weeks,\nin accordance with any election given by the person to whom payment is to be made.\n(2A) If a person makes elections under paragraph (2) for child tax credit and any child care element of working tax credit to be paid at differing intervals, the elections shall have no effect and the Commissioners may pay the child tax credit and any child care element together either each week or every four weeks as appears to them to be appropriate.\n(2B) Notwithstanding the terms of any election under paragraph (2), the Commissioners may pay the tax credit or element either each week or every four weeks as appears to them to be appropriate.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) This regulation is subject to regulations 10 and 11.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(1) revoked (with effect from 1.4.2006, in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Tax Credit (Payment by Employers, etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2200), regs. 1(1)(3), 9(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in regs. 3-14 substituted (29.8.2005) by The Tax Credit (Payment by Employers, etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2200), regs. 1(1), 7(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(2) inserted (6.4.2003) by The Tax Credits (Claims and Notifications and Payments by the Board) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/723), regs. 1, 9(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(2) substituted (31.12.2010) by The Tax Credits (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2914), regs. 1(2), 7(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 8(2A) inserted (6.4.2003) by The Tax Credits (Claims and Notifications and Payments by the Board) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/723), regs. 1, 9(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 8(2B) inserted (31.12.2010) by The Tax Credits (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2914), regs. 1(2), 7(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 8(3) revoked (with effect from 1.4.2006, in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Tax Credit (Payment by Employers, etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2200), regs. 1(1)(3), 9(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2173/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:50:26.143349+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."
}