Tax Credits Act 2002 section Sch 3 para 18

Amendments to the Children Act 1989 regarding local authority charges

Schedule 3, paragraph 18 amends section 29(3) of the Children Act 1989 to update the list of benefits that exempt a person from being charged for services provided by a local authority, replacing references to the old working families' tax credit and disabled person's tax credit with references to the new child tax credit and working tax credit.

• Amends the Children Act 1989 provision that protects certain benefit recipients from local authority service charges.
• Removes references to the old working families' tax credit and disabled person's tax credit.
• Adds entitlement to any element of child tax credit (other than the family element) as a qualifying benefit for the exemption.
• Adds entitlement to working tax credit as a qualifying benefit for the exemption.