Social Welfare (Consolidated Claims, Payments and Control) (Amendment) (No. 7) (Child Benefit) Regulations 2007
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Consolidated Claims, Payments and Control) (Amendment) (No. 7) (Child Benefit) Regulations 2007.
(2) These Regulations shall be construed as one with the Social Welfare (Consolidated Claims, Payments and Control) Regulations 2007 ( S.I. No. 142 of 2007 ) and shall be included in the collective citation “the Social Welfare (Consolidated Claims, Payments and Control) Regulations 2007”.
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paragraphs: In these Regulations “the Principal Regulations” means the Social Welfare (Consolidated Claims, Payments and Control) Regulations 2007.
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paragraphs: The Principal Regulations are amended by substituting the following Rules for Rules 4 and 5 in article 159:
“4. Subject to Rule 8, a qualified child, who is resident elsewhere than with a parent or a step-parent and whose mother is alive, shall, where his or her mother is entitled to his or her custody whether solely or jointly with any other person, be regarded as normally residing with his or her mother and with no other person.
5. Subject to Rule 8, a qualified child, who is resident elsewhere than with a parent or a step-parent and whose father is alive, shall, where his or her father is entitled to his or her custody whether solely or jointly with any person other than his or her mother, be regarded as normally residing with his or her father and with no other person.”.
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paragraphs: The Principal Regulations are amended by inserting the following Rule after Rule 7 in article 159:
“8. Where normal residence would fall to be decided under Rule 4 or 5 above and where a qualified child has been placed in foster care, or with a relative by the Health Service Executive under section 36 of the Child Care Act 1991 (No. 17 of 1991), and has been in such care for a continuous period of 6 months he or she shall, on the 1st day of the following month or the first day of the 6th month following the first day of October 2007, which ever is the later, be regarded as normally residing with the woman who has care and charge of him or her in the household of which he or she is normally a member and with no other person provided that where there is no such woman in that household he or she shall be regarded as normally residing with the head of that household and with no other person.”.
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paragraphs: The following sub-article is substituted for article 160(1) of the Principal Regulations:
“160. (1) Subject to this Part, a child shall be regarded as receiving full-time education while
(a) attending on a full-time basis a course of full-time education by day at an institution of education, or
(b) entered on a register established and maintained under Section 14 of the Education (Welfare) Act, 2000 .”.
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paragraphs: The Principal Regulations are amended by substituting the following article for article 195:
“195. For the purposes of early childcare supplement, where
(a) the persons specified in Rule 1 of article 159 are resident in separate households, or
(b) where a qualified child has been placed in foster care, or with a relative by the Health Service Executive under section 36 of the Child Care Act 1991 and normal residence is determined in accordance with Rule 8 of article 159,
the qualified child shall be regarded as normally residing with the person with whom he or she resides for the majority of the quarter.”.