{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-collection-and-enforcement-regulations-1992/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-collection-and-enforcement-regulations-1992/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1989",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support (Collection and Enforcement) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-collection-and-enforcement-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Transmission of payments",
  "text": "(1) Payments of child support maintenance made through the Secretary of State or other specified person shall be transmitted to the person entitled to receive them–\n(a) by transfer of credit to an account nominated by the person entitled to receive the payments; or\n(b) by means other than by transfer of credit as determined by the Secretary of State, where it appears to the Secretary of State to be necessary to do so in the circumstances of the particular case.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the Secretary of State shall specify the interval by reference to which the payments referred to in paragraph (1) are to be transmitted to the person entitled to receive them.\n(3) Except where the Secretary of State is satisfied in the circumstances of the case that it would cause undue hardship to either the person liable to make the payments or the person entitled to receive them, the interval referred to in paragraph (2) shall not differ from the interval referred to in regulation 4.\n(4) Subject to paragraph (3) and regulation 4(2), the interval referred to in paragraph (2) and that referred to in regulation 4 may be varied from time to time by the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 5(1) substituted (30.4.2012) by The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/712), regs. 1(1), 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5(2) substituted (18.4.1995) by S.I. 1995/1045, reg. 1(2), 13(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 5(3)(4) substituted (18.4.1995) by S.I. 1995/1045, reg. 1(2), 13(3) (with reg. 64(5))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1989/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:17:21.090573+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."
}