{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-calculation-regulations-2012/regulation-70",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-calculation-regulations-2012/regulation-70.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/70",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "70",
  "heading": "Non-resident parent on a flat rate or nil rate with gross weekly income",
  "text": "(1) A case is a case for a variation for the purposes of paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 4B to the 1991 Act where—\n(a) the non-resident parent's liability to pay child support maintenance under a maintenance calculation which is in force or has been applied for is or would be—\n(i) the nil rate by virtue of the non-resident parent being one of the persons referred to in paragraph (3); or\n(ii) the flat rate by virtue of the non-resident parent receiving a benefit, pension or allowance mentioned in regulation 44(1) (flat rate);\n(b) the Secretary of State is satisfied that the non-resident parent has an amount of income that would be taken into account in the maintenance calculation as gross weekly income if sub-paragraph (a) did not apply; and\n(c) that income is ... more than £100 per week.\n(2) Where a variation is agreed to under this regulation, the non-resident parent is treated as having additional income of the amount referred to in paragraph (1)(b).\n(3) The persons referred to are—\n(a) a child;\n(b) a prisoner;\n(c) a person receiving an allowance in respect of work-based training for young people, or in Scotland, Skillseekers training;\n(d) a person referred to in regulation 45(1)(e) (persons resident in a care home or independent hospital etc.).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 70(1)(c) omitted (3.7.13) (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Child Support and Claims and Payments (Miscellaneous Amendments and Change to the Minimum Amount of Liability) Regulations 2013 by (S.I. 2013/1654), reg. 1(2)(3),5(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 70 wholly in force; reg. 70 not in force at made date; reg. 70 in force at 29.7.2013 for certain purposes and reg. 70 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/70",
    "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."
}