{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-calculation-procedure-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/schedule-1/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-calculation-procedure-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/schedule-1/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2001/17",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support (Maintenance Calculation Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-calculation-procedure-regulations-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Interruption of full-time education",
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), in determining whether a person falls within paragraph 1(2) no account shall be taken of a period (whether beginning before or after the person concerned attains age 16) of up to 6 months of any interruption to the extent to which it is accepted that the interruption is attributable to a cause which is reasonable in the particular circumstances of the case; and where the interruption or its continuance is attributable to the illness or disability of mind or body of the person concerned, the period of 6 months may be extended for such further period as the Department considers reasonable in the particular circumstances of the case.\n(2) The provisions of sub-paragraph (1) do not apply to any period of interruption of a person’s full-time education which is followed immediately by a period during which child benefit ceases to be payable in respect of that person.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (coming into operation in accordance with reg. 1(1)(c) of the amending Rule) by The Child Support (Meaning of Child and New Calculation Rules) (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/438), regs. 1(1)(c), 9(2), Sch.; S.R. 2012/440, art. 2(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 4(1) substituted (coming into operation in accordance with reg. 1(1)(b) of the amending Rule) by The Child Support (Meaning of Child and New Calculation Rules) (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/438), regs. 1(1)(b), 3(d); S.R. 2012/440, art. 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 4(2) substituted (10.11.2009) by The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009/363), regs. 1(1), 4(4) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 4 coming into operation in accordance with reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/17/schedule/1/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:13:19.495224+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."
}