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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-northern-ireland-reciprocal-arrangements-regulations-1993/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-northern-ireland-reciprocal-arrangements-regulations-1993/schedule-1/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/584",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support (Northern Ireland Reciprocal Arrangements) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-northern-ireland-reciprocal-arrangements-regulations-1993",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Memorandum, unless the context otherwise requires:\n“the Act” means the Child Support Act 1991 and “the Order” means the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991;\n“application”, for the purposes of Article 5, includes an application by an absent parent and an application under section 7 of the Act;\n“determining authority” means, in relation to Great Britain, a child support officer, a child support appeal tribunal, a Child Support Commissioner, or a tribunal consisting of any three of the Child Support Commissioners, and appointed or constituted under the Act, and, in relation to Northern Ireland, a child support officer or a child support appeal tribunal appointed or constituted under the Order, a Child Support Commissioner for Northern Ireland appointed under the Act or a tribunal consisting of any two or three of the Child Support Commissioners for Northern Ireland constituted under the Order;\n“parent with care” means a person who, in respect of the same child or children, is both a parent and a person with care;\n“territory” means Great Britain or Northern Ireland, as the case may be.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/584/schedule/1/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:02:32.814046+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."
}