{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-commissioners-procedure-regulations-1992/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-commissioners-procedure-regulations-1992/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2640",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support Commissioners (Procedure) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-commissioners-procedure-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Notice of application for leave to appeal to a Commissioner",
  "text": "(1) An application for leave to appeal shall be brought by a notice in writing to the clerk to the tribunal at the Central Office of Child Support Appeal Tribunals at Anchorage Two, Anchorage Quay, Salford Quays, Manchester, M5 2YN or, as the case may be, to a Commissioner, and shall contain—\n(a) the name and address of the applicant;\n(b) the grounds on which the applicant intends to rely;\n(c) an address for service of notices and other documents on the applicant; and\n(d) where the applicant is to be represented by a person who is not a barrister, advocate or solicitor, the written authority of the applicant for that person to represent him,\nand the notice shall have annexed to it a copy of the decision against which leave to appeal is being sought.\n(2) In the case of an application for leave to appeal to a Commissioner made to a Commissioner where the applicant has been refused leave to appeal by the chairman of an appeal tribunal the notice shall also have annexed to it a copy of the decision refusing leave to appeal, and shall state the date on which the applicant was given notice of the refusal of leave.\n(3) Where the applicant has failed to apply within the time specified in regulation 2(1)(a) or, as the case may be, 2(1)(b) for leave to appeal, the notice of application for leave to appeal shall, in addition to complying with paragraph (1), state the grounds relied upon for seeking acceptance of the application notwithstanding that the relevant period has expired.\n(4) In a case where the application for leave to appeal is made by a child support officer he shall send a copy of the application to each person who was a party to the proceedings before the appeal tribunal, and in any other case the clerk to the tribunal or, as the case may be, the Office of the Commissioner shall send a copy of the application to each person, other than the applicant, who was such a party.\n(5) An applicant for leave to appeal to a Commissioner may at any time before the application is determined withdraw it by giving written notice of withdrawal to the clerk to the tribunal or, as the case may be, to the Commissioner.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/802",
      "affecting_title": "The Child Support Commissioners (Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/802",
      "affecting_title": "The Child Support Commissioners (Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/955",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Adjudication) and Commissioners Procedure and Child Support Commissioners (Procedure) Amendment Regulations 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2640/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:13:17.509869+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."
}