{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-assessments-and-special-cases-regulations-1992/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-assessments-and-special-cases-regulations-1992/regulation-6.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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "The additional element",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of the formula in paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 1 to the Act, the value of R is—\n(a) where the maintenance assessment in question relates to one qualifying child, 0.15;\n(b) where the maintenance assessment in question relates to two qualifying children, 0.20; and\n(c) where the maintenance assessment ,in question relates to three or more qualifying children, 0.25.\n(2) For the purposes of the alternative formula in paragraph 4(3) of Schedule 1 to the Act—\n(a) the value of Z is 1.5;\n(b) the amount for the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of Q is the same as the amount specified in regulation 3(1)(c) (income support family premium) in respect of each qualifying child.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 6(1) substituted (7.2.1994) by The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/227), regs. 1, 4(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 6(2)(a) substituted (18.4.1995) by The Child Support and Income Support (Amendment) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/1045), regs. 1(2), 43 (with regs. 62, 64)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(2)(b) substituted (7.4.1997) by The Child Benefit, Child Support and Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1803), regs. 1(b), 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 6(2)(b) substituted (6.4.1998) by The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997 1998 (S.I. 1998/58), regs. 1(3), 45 (with reg. 59)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1815/regulation/6",
    "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."
}