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title: "The Childcare Payments (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2026"
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# The Childcare Payments (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2026

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I. 2020/354 and a defect in S.I. 2025/857 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of those Statutory Instruments.
2026 No. 279
CHILDCARE
PAYMENT SCHEME
The Childcare Payments (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2026
Made
11th March 2026
Laid before Parliament
12th March 2026
Coming into force
6th April 2026
The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 9(2) and (3) and 69(2)(c) of the Childcare Payments Act 2014, make these Regulations.

## 1 Citation and commencement {#regulation-1}

These Regulations may be cited as the Childcare Payments (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2026 and come into force on 6th April 2026.

## 2 Amendments to the Childcare Payments (Eligibility) Regulations 2015 {#regulation-2}

(1) The Childcare Payments (Eligibility) Regulations 2015 are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 9 (the requirement to be in qualifying paid work), in paragraph (2A), in column 2 of the table (applicable period) in the phrase “ends on the day”, wherever it occurs, for “on” substitute “with”.
(3) In regulation 12 (qualifying paid work: time off in connection with sickness or parenting)—
(a) in paragraph (7)(a), after “(i),” insert “(o),”;
(b) in paragraph (7)(b), for “(j) to (m)” substitute “(j) to (n)”.