{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-deduction-from-earnings-orders-amendment-and-modification-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2016/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-deduction-from-earnings-orders-amendment-and-modification-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2016/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/982",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support (Deduction from Earnings Orders Amendment and Modification and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-deduction-from-earnings-orders-amendment-and-modification-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Child Support (Meaning of Child and New Calculation Rules) (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 2012",
  "text": "(1) The Child Support (Meaning of Child and New Calculation Rules) (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 2012 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 12(2) (transitional provision), for sub-paragraph (c), substitute—\n“(c) the order is to be treated as discharged, if it has not otherwise lapsed or been discharged, either—\n(i) in a case where there are old scheme arrears, on the date on which the old scheme arrears have been transferred to the computer system on which cases where child support maintenance calculated under the new scheme rules are administered by the Secretary of State, or\n(ii) in a case where there are no old scheme arrears, on the date on which the first deduction from earnings order made under the Collection and Enforcement Regulations as amended by regulation 4(3) to (6) takes effect.”.\n(3) After regulation 12(2), insert—\n“(3) In this regulation—\n“calculated under the new scheme rules” means calculated in accordance with Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Child Support Act 1991 as amended by paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to the 2008 Act;\n“old scheme arrears” means the amount of child support maintenance calculated other that in accordance with the new scheme rules which is overdue and which remains outstanding.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2012/2785."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/982/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:19:27.973998+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."
}