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The Child Benefit and Guardian's Allowance (Administration) Regulations 2003 (Note)

The Child Benefit and Guardian's Allowance (Administration) Regulations 2003

STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2003 No. 492

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Child Benefit and Guardian's Allowance (Administration) Regulations 2003

Made 5th March 2003

Laid before Parliament 5th March 2003

Coming into force 7th April 2003

ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

PART 1

GENERAL

1. - Citation, commencement and effect

2. - Interpretation

3. - Use of electronic communications

4. - Notification for purposes of sections 111A and 112 of the Administration Act and sections 105A and 106 of the Administration (NI) Act

PART 2

CLAIMS AND AWARDS

5. - Making a claim

6. - Time within which claims to be made

7. - Evidence and information

8. - Amending claims

9. - Withdrawing claims

10. - Defective applications

11. - Claims for child benefit treated as claims for guardian's allowance and vice versa

12. - Advance claims and awards

13. - Date of entitlement under an award for the purposes of payability

14. - Effective date of change of rate

15. - Duration of claims and awards

PART 3

PAYMENTS

16. - Manner of payment

17. - Direct credit transfers

18. - Time of payment

19. - Persons who may elect to have child benefit paid weekly

20. - Elections for weekly payment by persons to whom child benefit was payable for a period beginning before and ending after 15th March 1982

21. - Manner of making elections under regulations 19 and 20

22. - Interim payments

23. - Information to be given and changes to be notified

24. - Fractional amounts of benefit or allowance

25. - Payments to persons under the age of 18 years

26. - Extinguishment of right to payment if payment is not obtained within the prescribed period

PART 4

THIRD PARTIES

27. - Persons who may act on behalf of those unable to act

28. - Appointment of persons to act on behalf of those unable to act

29. - Persons who may proceed with a claim made by a person who has died

30. - Persons who may receive payments which a person who has died had not obtained

31. - Person who may make a claim on behalf of a person who has died

32. - Regulations 29, 30 and 31: supplementary

33. - Payment to one person on behalf of another

34. - Payment to partner as alternative payee

PART 5

OVERPAYMENTS AND RECOVERY

35. - Recovery of overpayments by direct credit transfer

36. - Circumstances in which determination need not be reversed, varied, revised or superseded

37. - Calculating recoverable amounts

38. - Offsetting prior payments of child benefit and guardian's allowance against arrears payable by virtue of a subsequent determination

39. - Offsetting prior payments of income support or jobseeker's allowance against arrears of child benefit or guardian's allowance payable by virtue of a subsequent determination

40. - Exception from offset of recoverable overpayment

41. - Bringing interim payments into account

42. - Recovery of overpaid interim payments

PART 6

REVOCATIONS AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

43. - Revocations

44. - Transitional provisions

SCHEDULE 1 - POWERS EXERCISED IN MAKING THESE REGULATIONS

SCHEDULE 2 - ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS

PART 1 - GENERAL

1. - Introduction

2. - Interpretation

3. - Scope of this Schedule

PART 2 - GENERAL

4. - Use of electronic communications by the Board

5. - Restrictions on the use of electronic communications by persons other than the Board

6. - Use of intermediaries

PART 3 - EVIDENTIAL PROVISIONS

7. - Effect of delivering information by means of electronic communications

8. - Proof of content

9. - Proof of identity of sender or recipient

10. - Information delivered electronically on another's behalf

11. - Proof of delivery of information

12. - Use of unauthorised means of el...

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