{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-calculation-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-51",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-calculation-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-51.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/51",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "Non-resident parent liable to maintain a child of the family or a child abroad",
  "text": "(1) A case is to be treated as a special case for the purposes of the Child Support Order where—\n(a) an application for a maintenance calculation has been made or a maintenance calculation is in force with respect to a qualifying child and a non-resident parent;\n(b) there is a different child in respect of whom no application for a maintenance calculation may be made but whom the non-resident parent is liable to maintain—\n(i) in accordance with a maintenance order made in respect of that child as a child of the non-resident parent’s family, or\n(ii) in accordance with an order made by a court outside Northern Ireland or under the legislation of a jurisdiction outside the United Kingdom; and\n(c) the weekly rate of child support maintenance, apart from this regulation, would be the basic rate, or the reduced rate, or would be calculated following agreement to a variation where the rate would otherwise be a flat rate or the nil rate.\n(2) In any such case the amount of child support maintenance is to be calculated in accordance with paragraph 5A of Schedule 1 as if the child in question were a child with respect to whom the non-resident parent was a party to a qualifying maintenance arrangement.\n(3) For the purposes of this regulation “child” includes a person who has not attained the age of 20 whom the non-resident parent is liable to maintain in accordance with paragraph (1)(b)(ii).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 51 comes into force in accordance with reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/427/regulation/51",
    "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."
}