{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-departure-direction-and-consequential-amendments-regulations-1996/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-departure-direction-and-consequential-amendments-regulations-1996/regulation-6.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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Provision of information",
  "text": "(1) Where an application has been made, the Secretary of State may request further information or evidence from the applicant to enable that application to be determined.\n(2) Any information or evidence requested by the Secretary of State in accordance with paragraph (1) shall be given within one month, or such longer period as the Secretary of State is satisfied is reasonable in the circumstances of the case, of the request for such information or evidence having been given or sent.\n(3) Where the time limit specified in paragraph (2) is not complied with, the Secretary of State may determine that application, in the absence of that information or evidence.",
  "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. 6(2) substituted (1.6.1999) by The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/1047), regs. 1(1), 36"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2907/regulation/6",
    "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."
}