{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-assessment-procedure-regulations-1992/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-assessment-procedure-regulations-1992/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1813",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support (Maintenance Assessment Procedure) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-assessment-procedure-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Death of a qualifying child",
  "text": "(1) Where the Secretary of State is informed of the death of a qualifying child with respect to whom an application for a maintenance assessment has been made, he shall—\n(a) proceed with the application as if it had not been made with respect to that child if he has not yet made an assessment;\n(b) treat any assessment already made by him as not having been made if the relevant persons have not been notified of it and proceed with the application as if it had not been made with respect to that child.\n(2) Where all of the qualifying children with respect to whom an application for a maintenance assessment has been made have died, and either the assessment has not been made or the relevant persons have not been notified of it, the Secretary of State shall treat the application as not having being made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(1) substituted (1.6.1999) by The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/1047), regs. 1(1) 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(2) substituted (1.6.1999) by The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/1047), regs. 1(1), 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1813/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:18:29.798655+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."
}