{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-departure-direction-and-consequential-amendments-regulations-1996/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-departure-direction-and-consequential-amendments-regulations-1996/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Rejection of application on completion of a preliminary consideration",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may, on completing a preliminary consideration of an application, reject that application on the ground set out in section 28B(2)(b) of the Act if it appears to him that the difference between the current amount and the revised amount is less than £1.00.\n(2) Where an application has been rejected in accordance with paragraph (1), the Secretary of State shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, give notice of that rejection to the relevant persons.",
  "extent": null,
  "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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2907/regulation/7",
    "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."
}