{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-northern-ireland-order-1991/article-28C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-northern-ireland-order-1991/article-28C.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/28C",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "28C",
  "heading": "Imposition of regular payments condition",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) an application for a variation is made by the non-resident parent; and\n(b) the Department makes an interim maintenance decision,\nit may also, if it has completed its preliminary consideration (under Article 28B) of the application for a variation and has not rejected it under that Article, impose on the non-resident parent one of the conditions mentioned in paragraph (2) (a “regular payments condition”).\n(2) The conditions are that—\n(a) the non-resident parent shall make the payments of child support maintenance specified in the interim maintenance decision;\n(b) the non-resident parent shall make such lesser payments of child support maintenance as may be determined in accordance with regulations made by the Department.\n(3) Where the Department imposes a regular payments condition, it shall give written notice of the imposition of the condition and of the effect of failure to comply with it to—\n(a) the non-resident parent; and\n(b) all the persons with care concerned.\n(4) A regular payments condition shall cease to have effect—\n(a) when the Department has made a decision on the application for a maintenance calculation under Article 13 (whether it agrees to a variation or not);\n(b) on the withdrawal of the application for a variation.\n(5) Where a non-resident parent has failed to comply with a regular payments condition, the Department may in prescribed circumstances refuse to consider the application for a variation, and instead make its decision under Article 13 as if no such application had been made.\n(6) The question whether a non-resident parent has failed to comply with a regular payments condition shall be determined by the Department.\n(7) Where the Department determines that a non-resident parent has failed to comply with a regular payments condition it shall give written notice of its determination to—\n(a) that parent; and\n(b) all the persons with care concerned.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 28A-28C and cross-heading 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. 5(2), 68(2); S.R. 2000/358, art. 2(b), Sch. Pt. II; S.R. 2003/53, art. 3(1), Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1991/2628/article/28C",
    "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."
}