{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-information-regulations-2008/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-information-regulations-2008/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2551",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support Information Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-information-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Information from the applicant",
  "text": "(1) A person who has made an application for a maintenance calculation under section 4 of the 1991 Act must furnish such information as the Secretary of State requires to enable—\n(a) the non-resident parent to be identified or traced (where that is necessary);\n(b) the amount of child support maintenance payable by the non-resident parent to be calculated; or\n(c) that amount to be recovered from the non-resident parent.\n(2) A qualifying child who has made an application for a maintenance calculation under section 7 of the 1991 Act (right of a child in Scotland to apply for a calculation) must furnish such information as the Secretary of State requires for any of the purposes, except enabling the non-resident parent to be identified, set out in paragraph (1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3 substituted (1.8.2012) by The Public Bodies (Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission: Abolition and Transfer of Functions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2007), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 116(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2551/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:24:11.090952+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."
}