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Savings
Accounts and Health in Pregnancy Grant Bill |
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[The
Speaker of the House of Commons has certified this Bill as a Money
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Bill
within the meaning of the Parliament Act 1911.] |
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Explanatory notes to the Bill,
prepared by the Treasury, are published separately as |
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EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN
RIGHTS |
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Lord Sassoon has made the following
statement under section 19(1)(a) of the Human |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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