{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-departure-direction-and-consequential-amendments-regulations-1996/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-departure-direction-and-consequential-amendments-regulations-1996/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2907",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support Departure Direction and Consequential Amendments Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-departure-direction-and-consequential-amendments-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Meaning of “benefit\" for the purposes of section 28E of the Act",
  "text": "For the purposes of section 28E of the Act, “benefit\" means income support, state pension credit, income-based jobseeker’s allowance, income-related employment and support allowance, working tax credit, housing benefit and relevant universal credit.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Instrument Regulations revoked (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Child Support (Meaning of Child and New Calculation Rules) (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2785), reg. 10(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 12 inserted (5.11.2003) by The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2779), regs. 1, 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 12 inserted (27.10.2008) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1554), regs. 1(2)(b), 60(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 12 substituted (30.6.2014) by The Child Support (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1386), regs. 1(2), 4 (as amended (24.6.2014) by S.I. 2014/1621, reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2907/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:32:00.148055+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."
}