{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-assessments-and-special-cases-regulations-1992/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-assessments-and-special-cases-regulations-1992/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1815",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support (Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-assessments-and-special-cases-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Calculation or estimation of amounts",
  "text": "(1) Where any amount is to be considered in connection with any calculation made under these Regulations, it shall be calculated or estimated as a weekly amount and, except where the context otherwise requires, any reference to such an amount shall be construed accordingly.\n(2) Subject to regulations 11(6) and (7) and 13(2) and regulation 8A(5) of the Maintenance Assessment Procedure Regulations, where any calculation made under the Act or these Regulations results in a fraction of a penny that fraction shall be treated as a penny if it is either one half or exceeds one half, otherwise it shall be disregarded.\n(3) The Secretary of State shall calculate the amounts to be taken into account for the purposes of these Regulations by reference, as the case may be, to the dates, weeks, months or other periods specified herein provided that if he becomes aware of a material change of circumstances occurring after such date, week, month or other period but before the effective date, he shall take that change of circumstances into account.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (19.1.1998) by The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997 1998 (S.I. 1998/58), regs. 1(2), 43 (with reg. 59)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) substituted (18.4.1995) by The Child Support and Income Support (Amendment) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/1045), regs. 1(2), 42"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(1) of the amending S.I.) by The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/3265), regs. 1(1), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) inserted (18.4.1995) by The Child Support and Income Support (Amendment) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/1045), regs. 1(2), 42"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(3) substituted (1.6.1999) by The Social Security Act 1998 (Commencement No. 7 and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1510), arts. 3(1), 15"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1815/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:18:27.747658+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."
}