{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-transitional-provisions-regulations-2000/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-transitional-provisions-regulations-2000/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/3186",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-transitional-provisions-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Conversion calculation and conversion decision",
  "text": "(1) A conversion calculation by the Secretary of State shall be made—\n(a) in accordance with Part I of Schedule 1 to the Act;\n(b) taking into account the information used in accordance with regulation 3(2); and\n(c) taking into account any relevant departure direction or any relevant property transfer as provided in regulations 17 to 23A.\n(2) A conversion decision shall be treated for the purposes of any revision, supersession, appeal or application for a variation under sections 16, 17, 20 or 28G of the Act, and Regulations made in connection with such matters, as a decision under section 11 of the Act made with effect from the date of notification of that decision and, where a conversion decision has been made, the case shall for those purposes be treated as if there were a maintenance calculation in force.\n(2A) For the purposes of sections 29 to 41B of the Act and regulations made under or by virtue of those sections, a conversion decision shall be treated on or after the case conversion date as if it were a maintenance calculation.\n(2B) For the purposes of regulation 2 of the Social Security Benefits (Maintenance Payments and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (interpretation for the purposes of section 74A of the Social Security Administration Act 1992), a conversion decision shall be treated on or after the case conversion date as if it were a maintenance calculation.\n(2C) For the purposes of regulations 9 and 10 of the Arrears, Interest and Adjustment Regulations, a conversion decision shall be treated on or after the case conversion date as if it were a maintenance calculation.\n(3) A conversion decision shall become a maintenance calculation when the transitional period ends or, if later, any relevant property transfer taken into account in the conversion calculation ceases to have effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 16(1)(b) substituted (16.9.2004) by The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/2415), regs. 1(2)(a), 8(8)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 16(1)(c) substituted (21.2.2003) by The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/328), regs. 1(3)(a), 9(7)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 16(2A) inserted (21.2.2003) by The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/328), regs. 1(3)(a), 9(7)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 16(2B) inserted (3.3.2003) by The Child Support (Transitional Provision)(Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/347), regs. 1, 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "16(2)C added (16.9.2004) by The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/2415), regs. 1(2)(a), 8(8)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16(3) substituted (21.2.2003) by The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/328), regs. 1(3)(a), 9(7)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16(3) substituted (21.2.2003) by The Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/328), regs. 1(3)(a), 9(7)(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Section 28G is substituted by section 7 of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "Section 11 is substituted by section 1 of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3186/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:09:43.661923+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."
}