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				<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/8/section/21/notes</dc:identifier><dc:subject>Tax credits</dc:subject><dc:subject>Child tax credit</dc:subject><dc:subject>Benefits</dc:subject><dc:subject>Working tax credit</dc:subject><dc:title>Explanatory Notes to Saving Gateway Accounts Act 2009</dc:title><dc:creator>HM Treasury</dc:creator><dc:publisher>King's Printer of Acts of Parliament</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2018-08-30</dc:modified>
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<Title><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2009/8" id="c00001" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2009" Number="0008">Saving Gateway Accounts Act 2009</Citation></Title>
<Number>8</Number>
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<DateText>2 July 2009</DateText>
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</ENprelims><Body><Division id="d00004" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/8/notes/division/4" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2009/8/notes/division/4"><Title>Commentary</Title><CommentaryP1 id="n00021" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/8/notes/division/4/21" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2009/8/notes/division/4/21">
<Title><CitationSubRef id="c00249" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2009/8/section/21" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-21">Section 21</CitationSubRef> Penalties: non-compliance by account provider</Title>
<NumberedPara id="paragraph-109" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/8/notes/paragraph/109" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2009/8/notes/paragraph/109"><Pnumber>109</Pnumber><Para>
<Text>This section sets out the penalties that may be imposed on account providers who fail to comply with requirements imposed by or under this Act.  Under <Emphasis>subsection (<CitationSubRef id="c00251" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2009/8/section/21/1" CitationRef="c00249" SectionRef="section-21-1">1</CitationSubRef>)</Emphasis>, penalties may be imposed on an account provider who:</Text>
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<Text>offers or operates an account which purports to be a Saving Gateway account but does not comply with a requirement imposed by or under section 4;</Text>
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<Text>fails to make a maturity payment to an account holder within the period specified in regulations made under section 8(4);</Text>
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<Text>fails to make a death payment to the personal representatives of a deceased account holder within the period specified in regulations made under section 4(2)(b);</Text>
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<Text>allows an account holder to exceed the limit on payments into the account imposed by regulations made under section 4(4);</Text>
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<Text>fails to comply with a condition imposed by or under regulations made under section 5 (approvals);</Text>
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<Text>opens a purported Saving Gateway account for a person where the application for the account does not contain the declaration to be made by the account holder under section 6(2)(b), or does not comply with section 6(2)(c);</Text>
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<Text>fails to open an account for an account holder, in breach of the requirement to do so under section 6(3);</Text>
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<Text>opens an account for an account holder in breach of a requirement to refuse to open an account under regulations made under section 6(4); or</Text>
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<Text>fails to comply with any other requirement imposed in regulations made under section 7 (transfers) or section 9 (statements <Abbreviation Expansion="Et cetera" xml:lang="la">etc</Abbreviation>).</Text>
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<NumberedPara id="paragraph-110" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/8/notes/paragraph/110" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2009/8/notes/paragraph/110"><Pnumber>110</Pnumber><Para>
<Text><Emphasis>Subsection (<CitationSubRef id="c00253" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2009/8/section/21/2" CitationRef="c00249" SectionRef="section-21-2">2</CitationSubRef>)</Emphasis> sets the penalty under <Emphasis>subsection (<CitationSubRef id="c00255" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2009/8/section/21/1" CitationRef="c00249" SectionRef="section-21-1">1</CitationSubRef>)</Emphasis> as not exceeding the greater of £300 or £1 in respect of each Saving Gateway account affected by the matter, or any of the matters, in respect of which the penalty is imposed.</Text>
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<NumberedPara id="paragraph-111" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/8/notes/paragraph/111" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2009/8/notes/paragraph/111"><Pnumber>111</Pnumber><Para>
<Text><Emphasis>Subsection (<CitationSubRef id="c00257" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2009/8/section/21/3" CitationRef="c00249" SectionRef="section-21-3">3</CitationSubRef>)</Emphasis> provides for a supplementary penalty to be imposed by <Abbreviation Expansion="Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs">HMRC</Abbreviation> where an earlier penalty under this section was based on an underestimate of the number of accounts affected.</Text>
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