{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-miscellaneous-amendments-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-miscellaneous-amendments-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2009/363",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-miscellaneous-amendments-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2009",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Child Support (Maintenance Calculation Procedure) Regulations",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 1 to the Child Support (Maintenance Calculation Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 (meaning of “child” for the purposes of the Order) is amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (6).\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) For paragraph 2 (meaning of “advanced education” for the purposes of Article 3 of the Order), substitute—\n“Meaning of “advanced education” for the purposes of Article 3 of the Order\n2. For the purposes of Article 3 of the Order “advanced education” means education for the purposes of—\n(a) a course leading to a postgraduate degree or comparable qualification, a first degree or comparable qualification, a diploma of higher education or a higher national diploma; or\n(b) any other course which is of a standard above advanced GNVQ, or equivalent, including a course which is of a standard above a general certificate of education (advanced level), a Scottish national qualification (higher or advanced higher).”;\n(4) In paragraph 4 (interruption of full-time education), for sub-paragraph (2) substitute—\n“(2) The provisions of sub-paragraph (1) do not apply to any period of interruption of a person’s full-time education which is followed immediately by a period during which child benefit ceases to be payable in respect of that person.”.\n(5) Omit paragraph 5 (circumstances in which a person who has ceased to receive full-time education is to be treated as continuing to fall within Article 3(1) of the Order).\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 revoked (10.12.2012 for specified purposes) by The Child Support (Meaning of Child and New Calculation Rules) (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/438), regs. 1(1)(c), 9(2), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 4(2) revoked (10.12.2012) by The Child Support (Meaning of Child and New Calculation Rules) (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/438), regs. 1(1)(b), 9(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 4(6) revoked (10.12.2012) by The Child Support (Meaning of Child and New Calculation Rules) (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/438), regs. 1(1)(b), 9(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in operation at 10.11.2009, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2001 No. 17; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2008 No. 286."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/363/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:30:03.746986+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."
}