Commencement Dates
49.Subsections (2) and (3) of section 4 provides for commencement of the Act. It will have effect as follows.
Child Trust Fund
50.On 3 January 2011 the removal of CTF eligibility comes into effect. However, a period of three months, until 2 April 2011, is provided for children born and in the United Kingdom before 3 January 2011 to become eligible to a CTF. So, to be eligible to CTF a child must be born and in the United Kingdom before 3 January and additionally:
a claim for Child Benefit must be made, or the child must go into the care of a local authority, on or before 2 April 2011, and
if the child is subject to immigration control on 3 January 2011, that immigration control must be lifted on or before 2 April 2011.
Saving Gateway
51.Section 2 of the Act, concerning the Saving Gateway, will come into effect 2 months after Royal Assent.
Health in Pregnancy Grant
52.The health in pregnancy grant will not be payable to any woman who reaches the 25th week of her pregnancy on or after 1 January 2011.
53.However, any woman who satisfies the conditions of entitlement before 1 January 2011 will continue to be eligible to claim providing she makes her claim, in accordance with the prescribed conditions, before her baby is born.
