{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-act-1991/section-41A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-act-1991/section-41A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/48",
  "legislation_title": "Child Support Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-act-1991",
  "path": "section/41A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "41A",
  "heading": "Penalty payments.",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision for the payment to the Secretary of State by non-resident parents who are in arrears with payments of child support maintenance of penalty payments determined in accordance with the regulations.\n(2) The amount of a penalty payment in respect of any week may not exceed 25% of the amount of child support maintenance payable for that week, but otherwise is to be determined by the Secretary of State.\n(3) The liability of a non-resident parent to make a penalty payment does not affect his liability to pay the arrears of child support maintenance concerned.\n(4) Regulations under subsection (1) may, in particular, make provision—\n(a) as to the time at which a penalty payment is to be payable;\n(b) for the Secretary of State to waive a penalty payment, or part of it.\n(5) The provisions of this Act with respect to—\n(a) the collection of child support maintenance;\n(b) the enforcement of an obligation to pay child support maintenance,\napply equally (with any necessary modifications) to penalty payments payable by virtue of regulations under this section.\n(6) The Secretary of State shall pay penalty payments received by the Secretary of State into the Consolidated Fund.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 41A 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. 18(2), 86(1)(a)(2) (with ss. 28, 83(6)); S.I. 2000/2994, art. 2, Sch. Pt. 1; S.I. 2003/192, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 41A(1) substituted (1.11.2008) by Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (c. 6), s. 62(3), Sch. 3 para. 44(2); S.I. 2008/2675, art. 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 41A(1)(2) 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. 1(2), Sch. para. 51(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 41A(4)(b) 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. 1(2), Sch. para. 51(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 41A(6) 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. 1(2), Sch. para. 51(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 29-41B modified by The Child Support (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/3186), reg. 16(2A) (as inserted (21.2.2003) by S.I. 2003/328, regs. 1(3)(a), 9(7)(b))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 41A (as originally enacted) amended (14.7.2008 for specified purposes, 1.6.2009 in so far as not already in force) by Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (c. 6), s. 62(3), Sch. 7 para. 1(34)(a); S.I. 2008/1476, art. 2(3)(b)(4)(5); S.I. 2009/1314, art. 2(2)(b)(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1995/34",
      "affecting_title": "Child Support Act 1995"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/48/section/41A",
    "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."
}