{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-northern-ireland-order-1991/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-northern-ireland-order-1991/article-8.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/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Child support maintenance: supplemental provisions",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) there is more than one person with care of a qualifying child; and\n(b) one or more, but not all, of them have parental responsibility for the child;\nno application may be made for a maintenance calculation with respect to the child by any of those persons who do not have parental responsibility for the child.\n(2) Where more than one application for a maintenance calculation is made with respect to the child concerned, only one of them may be proceeded with.\n(3) The Department may by regulations make provision as to which of two or more applications for a maintenance calculation with respect to the same child is to be proceeded with.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 8(1) 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": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 8(2) 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": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 8(3) 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."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1991/2628/article/8",
    "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."
}