{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-calculation-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-70",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-maintenance-calculation-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-70.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/70",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "70",
  "heading": "Diversion of income",
  "text": "(1) A case is a case for a variation for the purposes of paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 4B where—\n(a) the non-resident parent (“P”) has the ability to control, whether directly or indirectly, the amount of income that—\n(i) P receives, or\n(ii) is taken into account as P’s gross weekly income; and\n(b) the Department is satisfied that P has unreasonably reduced the amount of P’s income which would otherwise fall to be taken into account as gross weekly income or as unearned income under regulation 68 by diverting it to other persons or for purposes other than the provision of such income for P.\n(2) Where a variation is agreed to under this regulation, the additional income to be taken into account is the whole of the amount by which the Department is satisfied that P has reduced the amount that would otherwise be taken into account as P’s income.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 70 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/70",
    "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."
}