{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-fees-regulations-northern-ireland-2014/regulation-8A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-fees-regulations-northern-ireland-2014/regulation-8A.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/8A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8A",
  "heading": "Interpretation of this Part",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Part—\n“the Ending Liability Regulations” means the Child Support (Ending Liability in Existing Cases and Transition to New Calculation Rules) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014;\n“absent parent” has the meaning given in Article 4(2) (meaning of certain terms) of the Child Support Order;\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“existing case” has the meaning given in paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 2 (maintenance calculations: transfer of cases to new rules) to the 2008 Act;\n“liability end date” has the meaning given in regulation 6 (liability end date) of the Ending Liability Regulations;\n“relevant period” in relation to a case means a period—\n(a)beginning on the date on which paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the 2008 Act comes into force in relation to that case; and\n(b)ending on the day which the Department makes a determination that the payment arrangement is to end.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 3A inserted (23.5.2016) by The Child Support (Deduction Orders and Fees) (Amendment and Modification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/193), regs. 1(1), 3(4) (with reg. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "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"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2014/182/regulation/8A",
    "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."
}