{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-calculation-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-calculation-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2012/427",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support Maintenance Calculation Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-calculation-regulations-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Multiple applications",
  "text": "(1) Where two or more applications for a maintenance calculation are made with respect to the same child the Department may determine which to proceed with.\n(2) In making a determination under paragraph (1) an earlier application has priority over one made later.\n(3) Where in relation to an application under Article 7—\n(a) both parents of a qualifying child are named as non-resident parents; or\n(b) it is made by both non-resident parents of a qualifying child,\nthe Department must proceed with the application in relation to each non-resident parent, treating it as a single application for a maintenance calculation in respect of that qualifying child.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 10 comes into force in accordance with reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Article 7 was amended by Article 12(1) of the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 and Schedule 7 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 and is amended by sections 1(2) and 2 of, and paragraphs 11 and 13 of Schedule 3 to, the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 and Schedule 5 to the Child Maintenance Act (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/427/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:12:57.336498+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."
}