{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-assessments-and-special-cases-regulations-1992/schedule-1/paragraph-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-assessments-and-special-cases-regulations-1992/schedule-1/paragraph-31.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": "schedule/1/paragraph/31",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where a payment is made on behalf of a parent or a relevant child in respect of food, ordinary clothing or footwear, gas, electricity or fuel charges, housing costs or council tax, an amount equal to the amount which the Secretary of State estimates represents the value of that payment shall be treated as the income of the parent in question except to the extent that such amount is—\n(a) disregarded under paragraph 38 of Schedule 2;\n(b) a payment of school fees paid by or on behalf of someone other than the absent parent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 31 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), 19(e)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1815/schedule/1/paragraph/31",
    "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."
}