{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-variations-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/schedule/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-variations-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/schedule/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2001/20",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Support (Variations) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-variations-regulations-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Department may determine a lower equivalent weekly value than that determined in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2 where the amount of child support maintenance that would be payable in consequence of agreeing to a variation of that value is lower than the amount of the periodical payments of maintenance which were payable under the court order or written agreement referred to in regulation 16.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (coming into operation in accordance with reg. 1(1)(c) of the amending Rule) by The Child Support (Meaning of Child and New Calculation Rules) (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/438), regs. 1(1)(c), 9(2), Sch.; S.R. 2012/440, art. 2(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 3 coming into operation in accordance with reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/20/schedule/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:13:17.536232+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."
}