{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-assessments-and-special-cases-regulations-1992/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-assessments-and-special-cases-regulations-1992/regulation-21.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/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "One parent is absent and the other is treated as absent",
  "text": "(1) Where the circumstances of a case are that one parent is an absent parent and the other parent is treated as an absent parent by regulation 20(2), that case shall be treated as a special case for the purposes of the Act.\n(2) For the purpose of assessing the child support maintenance payable by an absent parent where this case applies, each reference in Schedule 1 to the Act to a parent who is a person with care shall be treated as a reference to a person who is treated as an absent parent by regulation 20(2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1815/regulation/21",
    "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."
}