{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-arrangements-and-jurisdiction-regulations-1992/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2645",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support (Maintenance Arrangements and Jurisdiction) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-arrangements-and-jurisdiction-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Relationship between maintenance calculations and certain agreements",
  "text": "(1) Maintenance agreements within the meaning of section 9(1) of the Act are agreements of a kind prescribed for the purposes of section 10(2) of the Act.\n(2) Where a maintenance calculation is made with respect to—\n(a) all of the children with respect to whom an agreement falling within paragraph (1) is in force; or\n(b) one or more but not all of the children with respect to whom an agreement falling within paragraph (1) is in force and where the amount payable under the agreement to or for the benefit of each child is separately specified,\nthat agreement shall, so far as it relates to the making or securing of periodical payments to or for the benefit of the children with respect to whom the maintenance calculation has been made, become unenforceable from the effective date of the calculation.\n(3) Where an agreement becomes unenforceable under the provisions of paragraph (2) to the extent specified in that paragraph, it shall remain unenforceable in relation to a particular child until such date as the Secretary of State no longer has jurisdiction to make a maintenance calculation with respect to that child.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 4(2) substituted (coming into force and with effect for specified purposes on various dates in accordance with reg. 1(3)(d) of the amending S.I. and s. 26, Sch. 3 para. 11(19)(20) of 2000 c. 19) by Child Support (Information, Evidence and Disclosure and Maintenance Arrangements and Jurisdiction) (Amendment) Regulations 2000, (S.I. 2001/161), regs. 1(3)(d), 2(2) (with reg. 10); S.I. 2003/192, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 4(2) substituted (coming into force and with effect for specified purposes on various dates in accordance with reg. 1(3)(d) of the amending S.I. and s. 26, Sch. 3 para. 11(19)(20) of 2000 c. 19) by Child Support (Information, Evidence and Disclosure and Maintenance Arrangements and Jurisdiction) (Amendment) Regulations 2000, (S.I. 2001/161), regs. 1(3)(d), 2(2) (with reg. 10); S.I. 2003/192, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 4(2) substituted (coming into force and with effect for specified purposes on various dates in accordance with reg. 1(3)(d) of the amending S.I. and s. 26, Sch. 3 para. 11(19)(20) of 2000 c. 19) by Child Support (Information, Evidence and Disclosure and Maintenance Arrangements and Jurisdiction) (Amendment) Regulations 2000, (S.I. 2001/161), regs. 1(3)(d), 2(2) (with reg. 10); S.I. 2003/192, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(3) substituted (1.6.1999) by Social Security Act 1998 (Commencement No. 7 and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1510), arts. 3(1), 31(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in reg. 4(3) substituted (coming into force and with effect for specified purposes on various dates in accordance with reg. 1(3)(d) of the amending S.I. and s. 26, Sch. 3 para. 11(19)(20) of 2000 c. 19) by Child Support (Information, Evidence and Disclosure and Maintenance Arrangements and Jurisdiction) (Amendment) Regulations 2000, (S.I. 2001/161), regs. 1(3)(d), 2(2) (with reg. 10); S.I. 2003/192, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in reg. 4 heading substituted (coming into force and with effect for specified purposes on various dates in accordance with reg. 1(3)(d) of the amending S.I. and s. 26, Sch. 3 para. 11(19)(20) of 2000 c. 19) by Child Support (Information, Evidence and Disclosure and Maintenance Arrangements and Jurisdiction) (Amendment) Regulations 2000, (S.I. 2001/161), regs. 1(3)(d), 2(2) (with reg. 10); S.I. 2003/192, art. 3, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2645/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:13:13.955315+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."
}