{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-departure-direction-anticipatory-application-regulations-1996/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-departure-direction-anticipatory-application-regulations-1996/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/635",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support Departure Direction (Anticipatory Application) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-departure-direction-anticipatory-application-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Applications for a departure direction and the determination of applications",
  "text": "(1) Where a maintenance assessment is in force, a person mentioned in section 28A(1) of the Act may make an application if—\n(a) the person with care resides in the county of Essex, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Surrey, Hertfordshire or Greater London; or\n(b) it appears to the Secretary of State that, if an application were to be made and he were to give it a preliminary consideration under section 28B of the Act on the basis of information in his possession prior to 9th April 1996, such a preliminary consideration would not lead him to reject the application.\n(2) Applications for a departure direction made before the coming into force of section 28A of the Act shall be determined as if that section and the other provisions of the Act relating to departure directions were in force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/635/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:49:24.441637+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."
}