Amendments proposed to the Tax Credits Bill - continued	House of Commons
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Passported benefits

   

Steve Webb
Dr Vincent Cable

NC7

To move the following Clause:—

    'Recipients of a tax credit shall be entitled to the benefits to which claimants of family credit and disability working allowance were entitled under the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 1998 as they had effect immediately prior to the coming into force of this Act.'.

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Amendment of Children Act 1989

   

Mrs Jacqui Lait

NC8

To move the following Clause:—

    'Section 71 of the Children Act 1989 shall be amended as follows:

(a) for the words "under the age of eight", wherever they occur, there shall be substituted the words "under the age of fifteen or, in the case of a child who is disabled, under the age of seventeen"; and

(b) after subsection (4) there shall be inserted:

    "(4A) Where a person is employed as an au pair, she acts as a childminder for the purposes of this Part when looking after her employer's child or children wholly or mainly in her employer's home.".'.

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Division of childcare tax credit

   

Mrs Jacqui Lait

NC9

To move the following Clause:—

    'Where a childcare tax credit is payable as a component of either working families tax credit or disabled person's tax credit in respect of a child or children whose parents do not live together, then that childcare tax credit shall be shared between the parents in proportion to the amount of time, in the course of a year, that each of them looks after the child or children, and any regulations establishing or amending provisions relating to tax credits shall so provide.'.

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Payments to be in trust for employees

   

Mr Eric Pickles
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr Julian Brazier
Mr Tim Collins
Miss Julie Kirkbride
Mrs Jacqui Lait

NC11

To move the following Clause:—

    '(1) In respect of any amount paid by the Board to an employer under this Act in respect of an employee, the employer shall be treated as holding that amount on trust for the employee and the employee shall be treated as being beneficially entitled to that amount.

    (2) In any case where the employer fails to pay any amount referred to in subsection (1) above to the employee, the employee concerned shall be entitled to take proceedings for the recovery of that amount as a breach of trust.'.

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Mr Eric Pickles
Mr Nick Gibb

11

Schedule     1,     page     10,     line     6,     leave out 'tax'.

   

Mr Eric Pickles
Mr Nick Gibb

12

Schedule     1,     page     10,     line     8,     leave out 'tax'.

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Mr Eric Pickles
Mr Nick Gibb
Mr Julian Brazier
Mr Tim Collins
Miss Julie Kirkbride
Mrs Jacqui Lait

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Schedule     2,     page     13,     leave out lines 18 and 19.

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Prepared 11 Feb 1999