{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-departure-direction-and-consequential-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-departure-direction-and-consequential-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-26.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/541",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support Departure Direction and Consequential Amendments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-departure-direction-and-consequential-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Unreasonably high housing costs",
  "text": "A case shall constitute a case for the purposes of paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 4B to the Order where—\n(a) the housing costs of the non-applicant exceed the limits set out in regulation 18(1) of the Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases Regulations (excessive housing costs);\n(b) the non-applicant falls within paragraph (2) of that regulation or would fall within that paragraph if it applied to parents with care; and\n(c) the Department is satisfied that the housing costs of the non-applicant are substantially higher than is necessary taking into account any special circumstances applicable to that non-applicant.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 26 in operation at 2.12.1996, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/541/regulation/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:32:21.153122+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."
}