{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/317",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation as follows—\n(a) this regulation and regulations 2, 3(1), (2) and (5), 4(1), (2) and (4) to (6) and 5(1) and (3) on 5th August 1996; and\n(b) all other regulations on 7th October 1996.\n(2) In these Regulations “the Maintenance Assessment Procedure Regulations” means the Child Support (Maintenance Assessment Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in operation at 7.10.1996, see reg. 1(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1992 No. 340; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1995 Nos. 162 and 475"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/317",
      "affecting_title": "The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/317/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:34:49.067439+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."
}