{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-calculation-regulations-2012/regulation-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-calculation-regulations-2012/regulation-56.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/56",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Application for a variation",
  "text": "(1) Where an application for a variation is made other than in writing it is treated as made on the date on which the applicant notifies the Secretary of State that the applicant wishes to make such an application.\n(2) Where an application for a variation is made in writing it is treated as made on the date that the Secretary of State receives it.\n(3) Two or more applications for a variation with respect to the same maintenance calculation or application for a maintenance calculation may be considered together.\n(4) The Secretary of State may treat an application for a variation made on one ground as made on another ground if that other ground is more appropriate to the facts alleged in that case.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 56 wholly in force; reg. 56 not in force at made date; reg. 56 in force at 29.7.2013 for certain purposes and reg. 56 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/56",
    "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."
}