{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-act-1991/schedule-4B/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-act-1991/schedule-4B/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/48",
  "legislation_title": "Child Support Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-act-1991",
  "path": "schedule/4B/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A variation applied for by a non-resident parent may be agreed with respect to his special expenses.\n(2) In this paragraph “special expenses” means the whole, or any amount above a prescribed amount, or any prescribed part, of expenses which fall within a prescribed description of expenses.\n(3) In prescribing descriptions of expenses for the purposes of this paragraph, the Secretary of State may, in particular, make provision with respect to—\n(a) costs incurred by a non-resident parent in maintaining contact with the child, or with any of the children, with respect to whom the application for a maintenance calculation has been made ... ;\n(b) costs attributable to a long-term illness or disability of a relevant other child (within the meaning of paragraph 10C(2) of Schedule 1);\n(c) debts of a prescribed description incurred, before the non-resident parent became a non-resident parent in relation to a child with respect to whom the maintenance calculation has been applied for ... —\n(i) for the joint benefit of both parents;\n(ii) for the benefit of any such child; or\n(iii) for the benefit of any other child falling within a prescribed category;\n(d) boarding school fees for a child in relation to whom the application for a maintenance calculation has been made ... ;\n(e) the cost to the non-resident parent of making payments in relation to a mortgage on the home he and the person with care shared, if he no longer has an interest in it, and she and a child in relation to whom the application for a maintenance calculation has been made ... still live there.\n(4) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (3)(b)—\n(a) “disability” and “illness” have such meaning as may be prescribed; and\n(b) the question whether an illness or disability is long-term shall be determined in accordance with regulations made by the Secretary of State.\n(5) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (3)(d), the Secretary of State may prescribe—\n(a) the meaning of “boarding school fees”; and\n(b) components of such fees (whether or not itemised as such) which are, or are not, to be taken into account,\nand may provide for estimating any such component.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4B substituted (10.11.2000 for specified purposes, 3.3.2003 for specified purposes) by Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c. 19), ss. 6(2), 86(1)(a)(2), Sch. 2 Pt. II (with ss. 28, 83(6)); S.I. 2000/2994, art. 2(1), Sch. Pt. 1; S.I. 2003/192, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4B para. 2(3)(a) repealed (27.10.2008) by Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (c. 6), s. 62(3), Sch. 8; S.I. 2008/2548, art. 3(d)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4B para. 2(3)(c) repealed (27.10.2008) by Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (c. 6), s. 62(3), Sch. 8; S.I. 2008/2548, art. 3(d)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4B para. 2(3)(d) repealed (27.10.2008) by Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (c. 6), s. 62(3), Sch. 8; S.I. 2008/2548, art. 3(d)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4B para. 2(3)(e) repealed (27.10.2008) by Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (c. 6), s. 62(3), Sch. 8; S.I. 2008/2548, art. 3(d)(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/48/schedule/4B/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:37:00.270775+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."
}