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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-assessment-procedure-regulations-1992/schedule-1/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-assessment-procedure-regulations-1992/schedule-1/paragraph-4.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": "schedule/1/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Interruption of full-time education",
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), in determining whether a person falls within paragraph 1(2) no account shall be taken of a period (whether beginning before or after the person concerned attains age 16) of up to 6 months of any interruption to the extent to which it is accepted that the interruption is attributable to a cause which is reasonable in the particular circumstances of the case; and where the interruption or its continuance is attributable to the illness or disability of mind or body of the person concerned, the period of 6 months may be extended for such further period as the Secretary of State considers reasonable in the particular circumstances of the case.\n(2) The provisions of sub-paragraph (1) do not apply to any period of interruption of a person’s full-time education which is followed immediately by a period during which child benefit ceases to be payable in respect of that person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 4(1) substituted (10.12.2012 coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(3)) by The Child Support (Meaning of Child and New Calculation Rules) (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2785), regs. 1(3), 2(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 4 substituted (1.6.1999) by The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/1047), regs. 1(1), 32"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 4(2) substituted (10.11.2009) by The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2909), regs. 1(2), 3(4)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1813/schedule/1/paragraph/4",
    "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."
}