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Savings Accounts and Health in Pregnancy Grant Bill |
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Explanatory notes to the Bill, prepared by HM Treasury, are published separately as |
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EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS |
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Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer has made the following statement under section |
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19(1)(a) of the Human Rights Act 1998: |
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In my view the provisions of the Savings Accounts and Health in Pregnancy Grant |
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Bill are compatible with the Convention rights. |
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Make provision about eligibility for a child trust fund; to repeal the Saving |
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Gateway Accounts Act 2009; to make provision about entitlement to health in |
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pregnancy grant; and for connected purposes. |
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Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and |
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consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present |
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Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— |
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1 | Removal of eligibility for child trust fund |
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(1) | Section 2 of the Child Trust Funds Act 2004 (which determines whether a child |
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is eligible for a child trust fund) is amended as follows. |
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(2) | In subsection (1) (which provides that a child is an eligible child if the child was |
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born after 31st August 2002 and meets certain other criteria), after “31st August |
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2002” insert “and before 3rd January 2011”. |
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(3) | After subsection (5) insert— |
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“(5A) | A child born before 3rd January 2011 who would otherwise have |
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become an eligible child on or after that date is not an eligible child |
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unless subsection (5B) or (5C) applies to the child. |
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(5B) | This subsection applies to a child (who accordingly is an eligible child |
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by virtue of subsection (1)(a)) if— |
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(a) | a person is entitled to child benefit in respect of the child, |
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(b) | the first day for which child benefit is paid falls on or before 3rd |
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(c) | either subsection (5) does not apply to the child at the beginning |
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of 3rd January 2011, or that subsection applies to the child at |
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that time but ceases to apply to the child before 3rd April 2011. |
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(5C) | This subsection applies to a child (who accordingly is an eligible child |
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by virtue of subsection (1)(b)) if— |
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(a) | the child is in the United Kingdom at the beginning of 3rd |
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(b) | the provisions specified in subsection (2)(a) or (b) apply in |
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relation to the child before 3rd April 2011, and |
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(c) | either subsection (5) does not apply to the child at the beginning |
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of 3rd January 2011, or that subsection applies to the child at |
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that time but ceases to apply to the child before 3rd April 2011.” |
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(4) | In subsection (6) (which determines for the purposes of subsection (1)(a) |
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whether a person is entitled to child benefit in respect of a child), after |
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“subsection (1)(a)” insert “or (5B)(a)”. |
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2 | Repeal of Saving Gateway Accounts Act 2009 |
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(1) | The Saving Gateway Accounts Act 2009 is repealed. |
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(2) | In section 121F(2) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (supply of |
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information to Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs) omit “Saving Gateway |
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(3) | In section 115E(2) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act |
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1992 (supply of information to Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs) omit |
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“Saving Gateway accounts,”. |
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(4) | In Schedule 2 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (excepted matters) omit |
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(5) | In Schedule 1 to the Corporation Tax Act 2010 (minor and consequential |
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amendments) omit paragraph 705 (which amends section 9(2) of the Saving |
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Gateway Accounts Act 2009). |
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3 | Removal of entitlement to health in pregnancy grant |
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(1) | In section 140A of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 |
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(entitlement to health in pregnancy grant: Great Britain), for subsection (2) |
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“(2) | A woman is not entitled to health in pregnancy grant unless she has |
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reached the 25th week of her pregnancy before 1st January 2011.” |
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(2) | In section 136A of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern |
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Ireland) Act 1992 (entitlement to health in pregnancy grant: Northern Ireland), |
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for subsection (2) substitute— |
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“(2) | A woman is not entitled to health in pregnancy grant unless she has |
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reached the 25th week of her pregnancy before 1st January 2011.” |
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4 | Short title, commencement and extent |
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(1) | This Act may be cited as the Savings Accounts and Health in Pregnancy Grant |
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(2) | Section 2 (repeal of Saving Gateway Accounts Act 2009) comes into force at the |
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end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which this Act is |
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(3) | The rest of this Act comes into force on the day on which it is passed. |
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Savings Accounts and Health in Pregnancy Grant Bill |
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To Make provision about eligibility for a child trust fund; to repeal the Saving |
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Gateway Accounts Act 2009; to make provision about entitlement to health in |
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pregnancy grant; and for connected purposes. |
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