{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-northern-ireland-order-1991/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-northern-ireland-order-1991/article-4.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/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Meaning of certain other terms used in this Order",
  "text": "(1) A child is a “qualifying child” if—\n(a) one of his parents is, in relation to him, a non-resident parent; or\n(b) both of his parents are, in relation to him, non-resident parents.\n(2) The parent of any child is a “non-resident parent”, in relation to him, if—\n(a) that parent is not living in the same household with the child; and\n(b) the child has his home with a person who is, in relation to him, a person with care.\n(3) A person is a “person with care”, in relation to any child, if he is a person—\n(a) with whom the child has his home;\n(b) who usually provides day to day care for the child (whether exclusively or in conjunction with any other person); and\n(c) who does not fall within a prescribed category of person.\n(4) The Department shall not, under paragraph (3)(c), prescribe as a category—\n(a) parents;\n(b) guardians;\n(c) persons in whose favour residence orders under Article 8 of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 are in force.\n(5) For the purposes of this Order there may be more than one person with care in relation to the same qualifying child.\n(6) Periodical payments which are required to be paid in accordance with a maintenance calculation are referred to in this Order as “child support maintenance”.\n(7) Expressions are defined in this Article only for the purposes of this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Order substituted (31.1.2001 and 3.3.2003 for specified purposes) by Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4), ss. 25, 68(2), Sch. 3 para. 11; S.R. 2001/406, art. 2(a), Sch.; S.R. 2003/53, art. 3(1), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1995 NI 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(6) substituted (3.3.2003 for specified purposes) by Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4), ss. 1(2)(a), 68(2); S.R. 2003/53, art. 3(1), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Mod. S.R. 2001/18"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "nia/2022/18",
      "affecting_title": "Adoption and Children Act (Northern Ireland) 2022"
    },
    {
      "type": "modified",
      "affecting": "nisr/2012/427",
      "affecting_title": "The Child Support Maintenance Calculation Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1991/2628/article/4",
    "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."
}