{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-fees-regulations-northern-ireland-2014/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-fees-regulations-northern-ireland-2014/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2014/182",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support Fees Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-fees-regulations-northern-ireland-2014",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Interpretation of this Part",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Part—\n“armed forces” means the naval, military and air forces of the Crown;\n“child support maintenance” means child support maintenance calculated under Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Child Support Order as amended by Schedule 1 to the 2008 Act;\n“committed to operations” means deployed on an operational tour of duty and includes pre-operational training and leave, rest and recuperation during an operational tour of duty and post-operational leave;\n“deduction from earnings order” means an order made under Article 31(2) of the Child Support Order and, with the exception of where it appears in regulation 8(4)(b) (waiver of an enforcement fee), includes a deduction from earnings request;\n“deduction from earnings request” means a request from the Department in respect of a non-resident parent, who is a member of the armed forces and who is liable to pay child support maintenance, for a sum to be deducted from that non-resident parent’s pay and appropriated in or towards satisfaction of the non-resident parent’s obligation to pay child support maintenance;\n“liability order” means an order made under Article 33(3) of the Child Support Order;\n“lump sum deduction order” means an order made under Article 32E(1) of the Child Support Order; and\n“regular deduction order” means an order made under Article 32A(1) of the Child Support Order.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in operation at 30.6.2014, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Article 31(2) was amended by section 1(2)(a) of the 2000 Act"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Article 32E(1) was inserted by section 15 of the Child Maintenance Act (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Article 32A(1) was inserted by section 14 of the Child Maintenance Act (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2014/182/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:06:21.901973+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."
}