{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-management-of-payments-and-arrears-regulations-2009/regulation-3A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-management-of-payments-and-arrears-regulations-2009/regulation-3A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/3151",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support (Management of Payments and Arrears) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-management-of-payments-and-arrears-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/3A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3A",
  "heading": "Notice of consequences of failure to pay child support maintenance due",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies to a case where—\n(a) either—\n(i) there are arrangements for direct pay, or\n(ii) the Secretary of State is arranging for the collection of child support maintenance under section 29 of the 1991 Act but there are no arrangements for enforcement under the 1991 Act; and\n(b) the non-resident parent has failed to make one or more payments of child support maintenance due.\n(2) Where paragraph (1) applies to a case, the Secretary of State may only start making arrangements for collection under section 29 of the 1991 Act or arrangements for enforcement under the 1991 Act (or both) where the non-resident parent has been given a notice, within the preceding 12 month period, setting out that the Secretary of State will consider making such arrangements where there is a failure to make one or more payments of child support maintenance due.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 3A inserted (30.6.2014 for specified purposes) by The Child Support (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1386), regs. 1(2), 6(4) (as amended (24.6.2014) by S.I. 2014/1621, reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/3151/regulation/3A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:00:07.533613+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."
}