{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-assessments-and-special-cases-regulations-1992/schedule-1/paragraph-7",
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  "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/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where a benefit payment under the Contributions and Benefits Act includes an adult or child dependency increase—\n(a) if that benefit is payable to a parent, the income of that parent shall be calculated or estimated as if it did not include that amount;\n(b) if that benefit is payable to some other person but includes an amount in respect of the parent, the income of the parent shall be calculated or estimated as if it included that amount.\n(1A) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), an addition to a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance under regulation 10(4) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1996 shall be treated as a dependency increase included with a benefit under the Contributions and Benefits Act.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) Where child benefit in respect of a relevant child is in payment at the rate specified in regulation 2(1)(a)(ii) of the Child Benefit Rates Regulations, the difference between that rate and the basic rate applicable to that child, as defined in regulation 4.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 7(1A) inserted (7.10.1996) by The Social Security and Child Support (Jobseeker’s Allowance) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1345), regs. 1, 6(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 Pt. II para. 7(1A) substituted (6.4.1999) by The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/977), regs. 1(1), 6(5)(e)(i) (with reg. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 Pt. II para. 7(1A) substituted (6.4.1999) by The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/977), regs. 1(1), 6(5)(e)(ii) (with reg. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 7(2)-(5) omitted (6.4.2003) by virtue of The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/328), regs. 1(3)(d), 6(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 7(6) added (7.4.1997) by The Child Benefit, Child Support and Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1803), regs. 1(b), 17(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1815/schedule/1/paragraph/7",
    "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."
}