{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-maintenance-and-other-payments-act-2008/schedule-4/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-maintenance-and-other-payments-act-2008/schedule-4/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/6",
  "legislation_title": "Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-maintenance-and-other-payments-act-2008",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In paragraph 9 (regulations about shared care), the existing provision becomes sub-paragraph (1).\n(2) In that sub-paragraph, before paragraph (a) insert—\n“(za) for how it is to be determined whether the care of a qualifying child is to be shared as mentioned in paragraph 7(2);”.\n(3) In that sub-paragraph, after paragraph (b) insert—\n“(ba) for how it is to be determined how many nights count for those purposes;”.\n(4) After that sub-paragraph insert—\n“(2) Regulations under sub-paragraph (1)(ba) may include provision enabling the Secretary of State to proceed for a prescribed period on the basis of a prescribed assumption.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 8(4) substituted (1.8.2012) by The Public Bodies (Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission: Abolition and Transfer of Functions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2007), art. 3(2), Sch. para. 95(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 8 partly in force; Sch. 4 para. 8 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 62(3); Sch. 4 para. 8 in force for certain purposes at 8.10.2012 by S.I. 2012/2523, art. 2(b); Sch. 4 para. 8 in force for certain further purposes at 10.12.2012 by S.I. 2012/3042, art. 2(b) (with art. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 8 in force at 29.7.2013 for specified purposes by S.I. 2013/1860, arts. 2(b), 3 (with arts. 5, 7) (as amended (24.6.2014) by S.I. 2014/1635, art. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 8 in force at 25.11.2013 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2013/2947, art. 2(a) (with arts. 3-5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/6/schedule/4/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:10.634132+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}