The Victims’ Payments Regulations 2020

Applicants under 18

48.—(1) An application may be made on behalf of a child by the child’s parents or a person having legal responsibility for the child.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), where a child is entitled to victims’ payments, any payment is to be made to the child’s parents or a person having legal responsibility for the child.

(3) Where paragraph (4) applies the Board may, in writing, appoint a person to—

(a) receive payments on behalf of the child, and

(b) apply the payments for the benefit of the child.

(4) This paragraph applies if the Board considers that it is in the interests of the child that a person other than the parent or person having legal responsibility for the child should receive payments on behalf of the child.

(5) Where a person appointed under paragraph (3) is a natural person, the person must be over the age of 18.

(6) The Board may, before appointing a person under paragraph (3), require that person to give such undertaking as the Board considers necessary as to the use of payments.

(7) Where the Board has made an appointment under paragraph (3)—

(a) the Board may at any time revoke it and either—

(i) make another appointment under paragraph (3), or

(ii) pay the child’s payments to the parent or the person having legal responsibility for the child, and

(b) the person appointed may resign after having given one month’s notice in writing to the Board of the intention to do so.

(8) In this regulation, a “child” means a person under the age of 18.