{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-calculation-regulations-2012/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-calculation-regulations-2012/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2677",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support Maintenance Calculation Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-calculation-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Initial effective date",
  "text": "(1) The effective date of a decision under section 11 of the 1991 Act (“the initial effective date”) is the date provided as the initial effective date in the notice given to the non-resident parent under regulation 11.\n(2) The non-resident parent must be notified of the initial effective date—\n(a) by written notice posted to the last known postal address of the non-resident parent at least two days prior to the initial effective date; ...\n(b) by telephone on or before the initial effective date and by written notice sent by post to the last known postal address of the non-resident parent; or\n(c) by electronic communication in accordance with Schedule 1, at least one day prior to the initial effective date",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 3 reg. 12(1): reg. 12 renumbered as reg. 12(1) (30.6.2014) by The Child Support (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1386), regs. 1(2), 7(3)(a) (as amended (24.6.2014) by S.I. 2014/1621, reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Pt. 3 reg. 12(1) substituted (30.6.2014) by The Child Support (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1386), regs. 1(2), 7(3)(b) (as amended (24.6.2014) by S.I. 2014/1621, reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Pt. 3 reg. 12(2) inserted (30.6.2014) by The Child Support (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1386), regs. 1(2), 7(3)(c) (as amended (24.6.2014) by S.I. 2014/1621, reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 12(2)(a)(b) substituted (26.5.2022) by The Child Support (Amendments Relating to Electronic Communications and Information) (England and Wales and Scotland) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/503), regs. 1(2), 26(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in reg. 12(2)(a) omitted (26.5.2022) by virtue of The Child Support (Amendments Relating to Electronic Communications and Information) (England and Wales and Scotland) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/503), regs. 1(2), 26(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 12(2)(c) and word inserted (26.5.2022) by The Child Support (Amendments Relating to Electronic Communications and Information) (England and Wales and Scotland) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/503), regs. 1(2), 26(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Section 11 was substituted by section 1(1) of the 2000 Act and amended by Schedule 8 to the 2008 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 12 wholly in force; reg. 12 not in force at made date; reg. 12 in force at 29.7.2013 for certain purposes and reg. 12 in force at 25.11.2013 in so far as not already in force, see reg. 1, SI 2013/1860 and S.I. 2013/2947"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2677/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:15:39.678068+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."
}