{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-departure-direction-and-consequential-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/schedule/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-departure-direction-and-consequential-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/schedule/paragraph-4.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": "schedule/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Department may determine a lower equivalent weekly value than that determined in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2 where the amount of child support maintenance that would be payable in consequence of a departure direction specifying that value is lower than the amount of maintenance that was payable under the court order or written agreement referred to in regulation 21.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 4 in operation at 2.12.1996, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/541/schedule/paragraph/4",
    "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."
}