{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-northern-ireland-order-1991/article-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-northern-ireland-order-1991/article-14.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1991/2628",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-northern-ireland-order-1991",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Default and interim maintenance decisions",
  "text": "(1) Where the Department—\n(a) is required to make a maintenance calculation; or\n(b) is proposing to make a decision under Article 18 or 19,\nand it appears to the Department that it does not have sufficient information to enable it to do so, it may make a default maintenance decision.\n(2) Where an application for a variation has been made under Article 28A(1) in connection with an application for a maintenance calculation ..., the Department may make an interim maintenance decision.\n(3) The amount of child support maintenance fixed by an interim maintenance decision shall be determined in accordance with Part I of Schedule 1.\n(4) The Department may by regulations make provision as to default and interim maintenance decisions.\n(5) The regulations may, in particular, make provision as to—\n(a) the procedure to be followed in making a default or an interim maintenance decision; and\n(b) a default rate of child support maintenance to apply where a default maintenance decision is made.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 14 substituted (22.11.2000 and 3.3.2003 for specified purposes) by Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4), ss. 4, 68(2); S.R. 2000/358, art. 2(b), Sch. Pt. II; S.R. 2003/53, art. 3(1), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 14(2) repealed (27.10.2008) by Child Maintenance Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 10), s. 41(1), Sch. 5 (with s. 37); S.R. 2008/399, art. 2(2)(d)(i) (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1991/2628/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:45:21.435585+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."
}