Clause 2 - Eligible children
Child Trust Funds Bill
2:30 pm
Mr Joe Benton (Bootle, Labour)
I remind the Committee that with this we are discussing the following:
Amendment No. 7, in
clause 2, page 2, line 10, leave out subsection (5).
Amendment No. 163, in
clause 2, page 2, line 18, at end insert—
'(5A) A child is also an ''eligible child'' if he is—
(i) a child for whom a parent gains entitlement to child benefit in respect of the child at any time before the child's eighteenth birthday; or
(ii) a child whose parents were not previously entitled to claim child benefit, who is subsequently taken into the care of a local authority.'.