Legislation – The Child Benefit (General) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2021

Amendment of the Child Benefit (General) Regulations 20062.

(1)

The Child Benefit (General) Regulations 20063 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 7 (qualifying young person: terminal dates)—

(a)

in paragraph (2)—

(i)

for the words “in accordance with Cases 1 and 2 has not expired in his case” substitute—

“in accordance with—

(a)

Cases 1 and 2, or,

(b)

for Summer Term 2021 where a person has been entered as a 2021 candidate for external examinations in connection with relevant education4 that person was receiving and those examinations have been cancelled due to coronavirus, Cases 1 and 3,

has not expired in his case.”, and

(ii)

after Case 2, but before the words “this paragraph is subject to the following qualification”, insert—

“Case 3

3.1.

Where external examinations have been cancelled due to coronavirus, in the case of a person whose name had been entered as a 2021 candidate for any external examination in connection with relevant education which that person was receiving at that time, the period is from the date on which that person ceases to receive relevant education up to and including—

(a)

whichever of the dates in paragraph 1.2 of Case 1 (as modified by paragraph 1.3 where appropriate) first occurs after the scheduled date of conclusion of the examination, or the last of those examinations where the person was entered for more than one, or

(b)

if that person attains the age of 20 on or before that date, the week including the last Monday before that person attains that age.”, and

(b)

after paragraph (3) insert—

“(4)

In this regulation—

“coronavirus” means severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2,

“entered as a 2021 candidate” includes a person who would have been entered as a candidate for one or more external examinations in Summer Term 2021 if the external examinations had not been cancelled before that person was entered as a candidate for such examinations,

“scheduled date” means the date on which the examination board setting the relevant examination had scheduled that examination to take place, and

“Summer Term 2021” means the period beginning with 1st June 2021 and ending with 31st August 2021.”.