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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-calculation-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-calculation-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Service of documents",
  "text": "(1) Where any document is given or sent to the Department, that document is to be treated as having been given or sent on the date of receipt by the Department.\n(2) Where the Department sends any written notification or any document by ordinary post to a person’s last known or notified address that document is treated as having been given or sent on the second day following the day on which it is posted.\n(3) Where the Department sends any written notification or any document by electronic communication to a person’s last known or notified address for electronic communication that document is treated as having been given or sent at the end of the first day after the day it was sent.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 7(3) added (26.5.2022) by The Child Support (Amendments Relating to Electronic Communications) Order (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/178), arts. 1, 5(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 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/7",
    "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."
}