{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-calculation-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-calculation-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-48.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/48",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Default rate",
  "text": "(1) Where the Department makes a default maintenance decision under Article 14(1) the default rate is set out in paragraph (2).\n(2) The default rate is—\n(a) £39 where there is one qualifying child;\n(b) £51 where there are two qualifying children; or\n(c) £64 where there are three or more qualifying children,\napportioned, where the non-resident parent has more than one qualifying child and in relation to them there is more than one person with care, as provided in paragraph 6(2) of Schedule 1.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 48 comes into force in accordance with reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Article 14(1) was substituted by paragraph 12(1) of Schedule 6 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/427/regulation/48",
    "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."
}